Canon 2010

St Emilion, Premier Grand Cru Classé B

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Tasting Notes
Wonderful nose with strawberries, cherry blossom, and vanilla. The red opens up with blueberries, milk chocolate and sweet licorice. Full and juicy on palate with pure dark fruit and velvety tannins. So nicely layered texture and long in the finish with red fruit and crushed chalk. The texture is superb. Drink from 2018. Score: 96 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2018+ 04 February 2013
An elegant, attractive blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc cropped at 35 hectoliters per hectare, this wine tips the scales at 15% natural alcohol which, given the more elegant style sought at Canon, tells readers a lot about how powerful the 2010 vintage was across all the appellations of Bordeaux. Exhibiting plenty of raspberry, blueberry and black cherry fruit as well as some crushed rock/chalky minerality and a floral note, this very impressive Canon is backward, structured and precise. Give it 7-8 years of bottle age and drink it over the following three decades. (91+ Points) Score: 91 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2020-2050 01 February 2013
Along with the brilliant 2009, the 2010 Canon appears to be the finest wine made at this estate since the 1982. Aficionados of this 50-acre vineyard situated on the top of the St.-Emilion plateau will have fun comparing the 2009 and 2010 over the next 30 years. Composed of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc that hit 15% natural alcohol (a record here), the 2010 offers up perfumed notes of spring flowers, crushed chalk, black currants, black cherries, earth, forest floor and oak. Full-bodied as well as elegant and precise, this brilliant effort needs 5-8 years of cellaring and should drink well for three decades or more. Score: 92 - 94 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 04 May 2011
Ripe Merlot nose. Sweet and chocolatey on the palate. No green tannins here but it all tastes rather disjointed. Score: 15 - 16 Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2016-2025 10 April 2012
Very moreish nose of plush red fruits, hints of eucalyptus and lifted red cherries. Pure and beautiful with quality fruit. Very flattering yet precise. Medium-bodied with deft tannins. Fresh and long finish. Beautifully measured and sophisticated. Score: 94 - 96 Albany Vintners, - 29 April 2011
Tasted at the chateau, the Canon is a blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc including 10% vin de presse, representing 70% of the crop. It was picked between 23th September and 6th October. It has a dark ruby colour. The nose is fairly high toned and primal with pomegranate, redcurrant and blueberry: a bouquet that is relatively 'glossy' for Canon. The palate is very smooth on the entry; plush and rounded, lower acidity than I was expecting with rounded, very sweet crème de cassis, blueberry and plum on the svelte finish. I would like to see a little more backbone and dryness on the finish, a little too generous at this stage. Re-tasting the 2009, I find a little more tension and edginess on the previous offering. Drink 2013- Tasted March 2011. Score: 90 - 92 Neal Martin, - Maturity: 2013+ 27 April 2011
Slightly smudgy on the nose. Thick and sweet and angular on the palate. Job done, but without enormous grace, and surely with quite a bit of oak? Score: 16 Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2018-2028 14 April 2011
I loved the '09 and this is as good if not better. Poised and elegant with great purity of fruit. Dense but long and linear. Beautiful texture and tannins. Score: 18 - 19 Decanter, Decanter.com Maturity: 2018-2040 01 April 2011
Ripe, with dark blackberry and linzer torte fruit laced nicely with the racy, mouthwatering acidity and strong graphite spine of the vintage. Long, driven and very solid, with serious, charcoal-tinged grip. Score: 91 - 94 James Molesworth, Wine Spectator 31 March 2011

Tasting Notes

Wonderful nose with strawberries, cherry blossom, and vanilla. The red opens up with blueberries, milk chocolate and sweet licorice. Full and juicy on palate with pure dark fruit and velvety tannins. So nicely layered texture and long in the finish with red fruit and crushed chalk. The texture is superb. Drink from 2018.

Score: 96

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2018+ 04 February 2013

An elegant, attractive blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc cropped at 35 hectoliters per hectare, this wine tips the scales at 15% natural alcohol which, given the more elegant style sought at Canon, tells readers a lot about how powerful the 2010 vintage was across all the appellations of Bordeaux. Exhibiting plenty of raspberry, blueberry and black cherry fruit as well as some crushed rock/chalky minerality and a floral note, this very impressive Canon is backward, structured and precise. Give it 7-8 years of bottle age and drink it over the following three decades. (91+ Points)

Score: 91

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2020-2050 01 February 2013

Along with the brilliant 2009, the 2010 Canon appears to be the finest wine made at this estate since the 1982. Aficionados of this 50-acre vineyard situated on the top of the St.-Emilion plateau will have fun comparing the 2009 and 2010 over the next 30 years. Composed of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc that hit 15% natural alcohol (a record here), the 2010 offers up perfumed notes of spring flowers, crushed chalk, black currants, black cherries, earth, forest floor and oak. Full-bodied as well as elegant and precise, this brilliant effort needs 5-8 years of cellaring and should drink well for three decades or more.

Score: 92 - 94

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 04 May 2011

Ripe Merlot nose. Sweet and chocolatey on the palate. No green tannins here but it all tastes rather disjointed.

Score: 15 - 16

Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2016-2025 10 April 2012

Very moreish nose of plush red fruits, hints of eucalyptus and lifted red cherries. Pure and beautiful with quality fruit. Very flattering yet precise. Medium-bodied with deft tannins. Fresh and long finish. Beautifully measured and sophisticated.

Score: 94 - 96

Albany Vintners, - 29 April 2011

Tasted at the chateau, the Canon is a blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc including 10% vin de presse, representing 70% of the crop. It was picked between 23th September and 6th October. It has a dark ruby colour. The nose is fairly high toned and primal with pomegranate, redcurrant and blueberry: a bouquet that is relatively 'glossy' for Canon. The palate is very smooth on the entry; plush and rounded, lower acidity than I was expecting with rounded, very sweet crème de cassis, blueberry and plum on the svelte finish. I would like to see a little more backbone and dryness on the finish, a little too generous at this stage. Re-tasting the 2009, I find a little more tension and edginess on the previous offering. Drink 2013- Tasted March 2011.

Score: 90 - 92

Neal Martin, - Maturity: 2013+ 27 April 2011

Slightly smudgy on the nose. Thick and sweet and angular on the palate. Job done, but without enormous grace, and surely with quite a bit of oak?

Score: 16

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2018-2028 14 April 2011

I loved the '09 and this is as good if not better. Poised and elegant with great purity of fruit. Dense but long and linear. Beautiful texture and tannins.

Score: 18 - 19

Decanter, Decanter.com Maturity: 2018-2040 01 April 2011

Ripe, with dark blackberry and linzer torte fruit laced nicely with the racy, mouthwatering acidity and strong graphite spine of the vintage. Long, driven and very solid, with serious, charcoal-tinged grip.

Score: 91 - 94

James Molesworth, Wine Spectator 31 March 2011

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