Chateau Canon - St. Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classe 2005 (6L)

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Château Canon / SAINT-ÉMILION GRAND CRU / PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ

Located on the Saint-Émilion limestone plateau, Château Canon is an emblematic estate with an outstanding terroir entitling it to Premier Grand Cru Classé status since 1954. The château overlooks a gentle slope where vines have been grown for a millennium. This vineyard is surrounded by stone walls and stretches as far as the village of Saint-Émilion. 

The enthusiastic winemaking team does their utmost to reflect Canon’s superb terroir by producing wine with unique finesse and complexity. Like the maison Chanel, who have owned Canon since 1996, Château Canon epitomises a style that is timeless, elegant and always fashionable.

Tasted at the Château Canon vertical, the 2005 Canon is evolving into a quite gorgeous Saint Emilion. One can still discern those brown spices infiltrating the ripe red and black fruit. There is fine mineralité here, great focus, perhaps just a hint of dried blood that develops with time. The palate is medium-bodied with supple, ripe tannin. It is a very complex Saint Emilion with immense purity and style, a wine that you have to keep coming back to in order to understand. It's at that pivotal stage between primary and secondary notes, the red and black fruit being overtaken by cedar, morels and a touch of game. It gently lifts and fans out to a quite captivating finish. Dare I say that the 2005 Canon is the pick of the three over 2009 and 2010? There...I've said it...it is a quite brilliant wine. Tasted October 2015.

 

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Producer	Chateau Canon
Country	France
Region	Bordeaux
Subregion	Saint Emilion
Varietal	Bordeaux Blend
Vintage	2005
Sku	09861
Size	6L