GrVins
Sélection et importation de vins fins
Saint-Emilion grand cru classé en 2012 Logé en caisse bois d’origine de 1 magnum 150 cl Parker 94-96 | Quarin 96 | Neal Martin 92-94
270.25 CHF (250.00 CHF HT)
Jean-Marc Quarin 96 points www.quarin.com Couleur rouge sombre, intense, aux reflets noirs. Nez intense, fin, fruité, floral et subtil, avec un fond de fruits noirs très original. Délicat en entrée de bouche, soyeux au toucher, le vin avance fondant, calme et tout en douceur, tout en étant plein. Fruité et noble en seconde partie du palais, il s’achève sur une grande finale construite, sèveuse et complexe, au grain de tannin fin. C’est superbe : tout en pulpe et ascendant à la fois. Jamais deux sans trois! Bravo ! Assemblage : 77 % merlot et 23 % cabernet franc. Alcool : 14° – pH : 3.66 – Vignoble non touché par le gel.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown 94-96 points www.robertparker.com The deep purple-black colored 2017 Canon offers-up intense notes of crushed blackberries, black cherries and warm cassis with touches of fertile loam, yeast extract, beef drippings and iron ore plus a waft of garrigue. Medium to full-bodied with great freshness and firm, rounded tannins, it’s very earthy in the mouth, finishing long and mineral-laced. A very serious wine, it is also fun, bright and vivacious and should age impressively.
All the 2017 blends have been finished and the wines have been aging in barrel since February 2018. “2017 was a special year, in most people’s minds a tough year because of the frost, but in between that parenthesis of the frost and rain, it was a great year,” commented winemaker/technical director Nicolas Audebert. “There was no blockage in the vines (vine shutdown), compared to 2015 and 2016. We started harvest on September 4 and finished on September 22. We like volume with no feeling of volume, which is what you get in 2017.”
Neal Martin 92-94 points www.vinous.com The 2017 Canon was picked 4 to 21 September and 22 to 27 September for the Merlot and Cabernet Franc at 42hl/ha and matured in 56% new oak. There is 14.0° alcohol this year and the pH comes in at 3.66. This takes a little time to open, eventually revealing blackberry, briary, crushed stone and light iris scents. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannins and good backbone. Strangely, it reminds me a little of modern-day Figeac, that Cabernet component smaller here but very expressive with touches of graphite and flint towards the linear but beguilingly fresh finish. I like the manner in which the limestone shines through the wine here, something noticeable in recent vintages. Whilst not the sensational 2015 or 2016, it is a damn fine Saint-Émilion that will settle at the top of my banded score.