Château CANON 2017

Description

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 95 points www.vinous.com (février 2020)
The 2017 Canon was bottled on 15 May, 2019. This needs time to settle in the glass, the oak rather vocal at this early stage and overshadowing the blackberry and briary aromas. It only takes a couple of minutes for this Saint-Émilion to settle and reveal more limestone-infused fruit that really shows its terroir. The palate is very well defined with crunchy black fruit. I appreciate the chalky texture and freshness of this Canon, almost brittle, with blackberry and brine-like notes on the finish. Whilst not up there with the superlative 2016, the follow-up is still very fine. Note that over multiple tasting this Canon improved between September and December.