2020 Château Canon

Community Tasting Notes (28) Avg Score: 96.7 points

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  3/26/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  Canon vs. Duffau-Lagarrosse 2009-2020 tasted blind (Fribourg): Medium garnet. Nose of pine, licorice, mint and toasty oak. Quite primary still, felt like it was bottled only recently. I think this is a Canon with lots of potential and my note could turn out to be conservative. 94-95

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  3/25/2024 - sirpat00 wrote: 94 Points

  Vertical of Canon vs Beasejour Duffau Lagarrosse (Fribourg): Vertical of Beausejour Duffau Lagarrosse vs Canon vs selected pirates 2005-2020. Main takeaways : i/ Canon trumps Beausejour overall, especially in more recent ones. ii/ Canon tends to be lighter-footed, more delicate while Beausejour is typically more extracted and ripe. iii/ St Emillion clearly struggles with the hotter vintages a few years on with 2005 the low-light, already exhibiting beef juice elements. iv/ best wines were Canon 2015 (95), 2019 and 2020 (94 each). Summary of wines and scores included in the tasting story.
  
  Tasting note:
  Light red berry fruit, sweet but fresh in style. Good intensity with features of spice and herbs. Amazingly soft, satin-like texture.

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  1/10/2024 - Mark Dignam Likes this wine: 99 Points

  Wow, this wine is wonderful. I can’t imagine how good it will be when mature. Good dark red with black red core, the nose explodes with all sorts of notes - floral characters, red and dark fruits, cedar, sweet spices and savoury aromas. Sniffing reveals so many aromatics it is mind boggling.
  
  The palate is beautifully constructed. Even at such a young age it is spectacular and a joy to drink. There are endless flavours and balance. I’d be happy to drink this every night.
  
  It is a theoretic bland of traditional and modern St Emilion - with the best aspects of both. Walks the fine line of power and subtlety with ease.
  
  It’s not very often I get do enthralled by a wine but this is wonderful.

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  12/16/2023 - ylkim30 Likes this wine:

  K&L Grand Bordeaux Tasting: I got blackberry aromas and hint of spice on the nose. Very silky texturally with a lightness and nimbleness on the palate. There's blue and purple fruit seasoned with saline and smoky notes. The structure is a little hard to get a read on: decent acidity, firm, slightly drying tannins, with a hit of peppery spice on the finish (not sure if that's from the dry extract of the fruit or from the oak). This is very good -- perhaps "modern" and a little worked, but a new modernism I can stand by.

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  12/16/2023 - iBurg1229 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  K&L Bordeaux Tasting: 14.5% ABV. Medium ruby appearance. Magnum pour. Black cherry, red plum, red bramble fruit, nutmeg, and a very distinct underlying layer of graphite/ minerality. Grainy but approachable tannins. Beautiful acidity gives a nice lift. Silky on the palate. Spicy, elegant, with great fruit purity. Tough for me to see a 100 point wine here right now, but this was very enjoyable. Need to lay this down for some time so more nuance comes out.

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