2020 Château Canon

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 96.8 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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  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 - 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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  12/16/2023 - WindFlyer Likes this wine:

  from magnum.
  
  deep ruby and medium body. blueberry, raspberry, cedar and violets on the nose. light feeling but with good density; fairly tight but the fruit slowly fleshes out with a lovely fresh lift and some mineral notes against very fine grained tannins. terrific length.
  
  quite elegant, balanced and focused. it needs about a decade to reach approachability and will likely be extraordinary even later than that.
  
  14.5% AbV; 68% Merlot/ 32% Cab Franc; eighteen months in 50% new oak

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  12/16/2023 - tcarter Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Lighter and more fruit forward in that right bank Merlot way. An absolute baby especially because I drank out of magnum. Will probably grow up to be an epic wine. I wouldn’t touch for 10+ years at least.

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