2019 Château Canon

Community Tasting Notes (35) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  4/13/2024 - CoolRunnings Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very good, but not as spectacular as previous vintages. Had for wife's 40th birthday, along with a lineup of first growths and Napa cabs. Overshadowed by several others wines of the evening.

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  3/26/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points

  Canon vs. Duffau-Lagarrosse 2009-2020 tasted blind (Fribourg): Medium garnet, Nose of dark fruit, sweet spices, well judge oak, medium plus bodied, buttery oak notes. Lovely may be not the last word on complexity (yet). Has upside from here. 93+

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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.
  
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  Sweet and ripe yet fresh and sexy red berry fruit. Cooler mineral notes create tangible breadth to the aroma profile. A fresh fruit on the palate, great balance with seamlessly integrated tannin already today, only later in the finish feeling slightly grainy. Promising – especially as the fruit no longer came across as extracted as when freshly bottled in 2021.

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  1/16/2024 - PSPatrick wrote: 93 Points

  The 2019 is a blend of 74% Merlot and 26% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV. From half-bottle. Decanted for two hours. Ripe red, blue, and black fruit, black currant, plum, ripe blueberry, ripe strawberry, ripe raspberry, espresso, smoke, spices, liquorice, coconut, and vanilla, with medium-minus acidity, light, fine, firm tannin, and very good length. Good structure and great concentration. Creamy texture. Light heat from the alcohol on the back-end. A modernistic interpretation of St. Émilion, and an outstanding wine. While accessible already, this young wine will need time to digest the generous oak. Drink from 2031+.

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  11/27/2023 - il_diavolo wrote: 92 Points

  Clearly too early to pass judgement (score should have a ?) but for me missing that freshness I have enjoyed in other 2019s - just a bit burly right now. A no- thanks for the cellar for now.

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