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In vervlogen tijden was Canon reeds geweldig. Dan werd het stil. Sinds 1996 legden voormalig manager John Kolasa en nieuwe eigenaren Chanel de basis van een renaissance die Canon terug tot het allerhoogste echelon zou brengen. De nieuwe directeur Nicolas Audebert kwam via Zuid-Amerika van Krug en startte met de triomfantelijke “100 punten” 2015. Sindsdien is hij niet meer te stoppen en maakt hij jaar in jaar uit één van de beste, en één van de meest geapprecieerde wijnen. De wijngaard is beplant met 75% Merlot en 25% Cabernet Franc. Hij verzorgt ook een meer dan voortreffelijk tweede label, Croix Canon. De 2022 is (weer eens) fenomenaal. Zoals gezegd: sinds 2015 zien we niets anders op Canon. Hij biedt geparfumeerde tonen van lentebloemen, viooltjes, gemalen krijt, zwarte bessen en aarde. In de mond is hij fris, elegant en precies. De fraîcheur is onwezenlijk mooi. Canon springt er weer uit en is een duidelijk voorbeeld van hoe goed de rechteroever het heeft gedaan in 2022. De 2022 is 75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc op een gezond rendement van 45 hl/ha. Elevage gebeurt in 50% nieuwe eik alsook vier grote foudres. De oogst verliep van 30 augustus tot 22 september. We behouden deze perfecte wijn voor vaste klanten. IN DE PERS 100 William Kelley – The Wine Advocate - robertparker.com (Maart 2025) The 2022 Canon has turned out brilliantly in bottle. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of sweet raspberries, wild berries and cherries mingled with hints of violets, pencil shavings, black truffle and rose petals, it's full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a dense, enveloping core of fruit underpinned by a chassis of sweet, suave tannins, concluding with a long, saline finish. This is one of the most muscular, broad-shouldered vintages of Canon in recent years, but it retains every bit of its limestone-driven identity. As I wrote two years ago, this is an estate that is delivering its greatest run of vintages since the superb Post War series that preceded the frosts of 1956, and the 2022 is indeed reminiscent of a modern day version of one of those great years. Drink 2030-2065. 99-100 William Kelley – The Wine Advocate Issue 266 - robertparker.com (April 2023) From an estate that is delivering its greatest run of vintages since the superb Post War series that preceded the frosts of 1956, the 2022 Canon is a magical wine that will be worth every effort to track down. Wafting from the glass with aromas of dark berries, wild plums and cherries mingled with hints of bay leaf, spices and violets, it's full-bodied, layered and multidimensional, with huge levels of concentration, vibrant acids and beautifully refined tannins. Concluding with a long, saline finish, this pure, perfumed and ineffably complete Canon is built for the ages, even if its structural polish is such that it will be approachable at a surprisingly early age. 98 Neal Martin – vinous.com (Januari 2025) The 2022 Canon has an exquisite bouquet that stops you in your tracks with heavenly blackberry, blueberry, violet and crushed limestone tones-articulating its terroir in consummate style. This has brilliant delineation and just soars from the glass. The medium-bodied palate features fine tannins, a very mineral-driven, almost symmetrical texture and a hint of black olive compote on the finish. It is an outstanding Saint-Emilion and certainly one of the best vintages produced at Canon. Drink 2032-2075. 96-98 Neal Martin – vinous.com (Mei 2023) The 2022 Canon was picked from 30 August to 22 September and is matured in 50% new oak for a planned 18 months. It has a beautifully-defined bouquet with plumes of blackberry, raspberry and subtle violet flower scents. The palate is very fresh on the entry, announcing a relatively linear Canon. The limestone terroir seeps into every pore of this Saint-Émilion. This is one of the more intellectual and saline Canon wines in recent years. A triumph in such a hot growing season, elevated by its limestone soils. Drink 2032-2075. 99 Antonio Galloni – vinous.com (Januari 2025) The 2022 Canon is a regal wine of total sophistication and class-aromatic, light on its feet and super-expressive. Crushed flowers, chalk, mint, dried herbs, incense and blood orange all race across the palate. Clean saline-inflected notes extend the mid-palate and finish effortlessly. Even with all of the heat and drought of the year, Canon retains its essential, highly refined personality. Drink 2030-2072. 96-99 Antonio Galloni – vinous.com (Mei 2023) The 2022 Canon is elegant and sensual, with virtually no sensation of tannin. A wine with no beginning and end, Canon is totally seamless. All the Canon signatures are there, but woven together in an effortless, gracious expression of this site. It's the sort of wine that is about subtlety and nuance more than power. Dark red/purplish fruit, lavender, rose petal and spice caress the palate, but ultimately, Canon is above all else a wine of exquisite detail. Haute couture. Tasted three times. Drink 2032-2072. 97-99+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown – thewineindependent.com (Mei 2023) The 2022 Canon is a blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc with a yield of 45 hl/ha, planned to be aged for 18 months in 50% new French oak. Deep garnet-purple in color, it requires a lot of patient swirling to release scents of fresh blackberries, raspberry preserves, and Morello cherries, giving way to emerging scents of rose oil, cumin seed, crushed rocks, and underbrush, plus a fragrant waft of candied violets. The medium to full-bodied palate is lively and tightly wound with firm, finely grained tannins and amazing tension, finishing long and perfumed. pH 3.50. Drink 2030-2065. 18/20 Jancis Robinson – jancisrobinson.com (Mei 2023) 75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc. All benefitting from the freshness of the limestone plateau. 18 months in 50% new oak including four tuns. Cask sample. This lovely wine really goes to the limit of unexpected freshness in 2022! Subtle and limpid and dangerously approachable. The lively calcaire note is very obvious. Clean and pure. Lots buried in there. Health juice/mouthwash. More lifted than the Rauzan-Ségla and less concentrated. Drink 2030– 2050. 17,5+/20 James Lawther – jancisrobinson.com (Mei 2023) 75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc. Cask sample. Elegant and precise on the nose. Red fruit with a chalky freshness. Beautifully textured. Velvety tannins and lovely persistence. Clean, fresh and long on the finish. Harmonious. Spot-on for the vintage. 14.5%. Drink 2030– 2048. 98-99 James Suckling – jamessuckling.com (April 2023) Endless on the palate with plenty of umami character. So Canon in its nature with plenty of fruit and fine tannins, yet almost weightless. The structure is all there. Electric. Long, long, long. 75% merlot and 25% cabernet franc. 98 Jane Anson – janeanson.com (Maart 2025) 98 Jane Anson – janeanson.com (Mei 2023) The inky intensity of the colour might make you worry that the limestone signature will be swamped, but it is very much guiding proceedings on the palate here. Expect waves of red roses, rhubarb, pink grapefruit, salinity, but also real intensity, there is a depth and complexity that quite stunning as the wine expands through the palate, with creamy blue and black fruits, and a mouthwatering oyster shell finish. 45hl/h, 3.5ph, 50% new oak, with four larger-sized oak casks. A standout in the vintage, more proof of the exceptional level that Canon is playing at right now. 50% new oak. Drink 2032-2050. 100 Jeb Dunnuck – jebdunnuck.com (Februari 2025) 97-99+ Jeb Dunnuck – jebdunnuck.com (Mei 2023) Tasted on three separate occasions (and I thought it had the potential to be a perfect wine on one of those), the 2022 Château Canon is an incredible wine in the making, and it might be the finest in the series starting in 2015. A blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc harvested between August 30 and September 22, it comes from yields of 45 hectoliters per hectare and hit 14.5% alcohol. The élevage will run 16-18 months in just 30% new French oak. As classy as they come, it has a beautiful perfume of red and blue fruits as well as notes of white flowers, truffly earth, woodsmoke, and forest floor. With incredible density, a multi-layered texture, ultra-fine tannins, and integrated acidity, this incredible Canon will evolve for 30-40 years. I finished my rough note on this with "Pure class." 20/20 Matthew Jukes – mattewjukes.com (Mei 2023) You can read about Canon’s second wine (Croix Canon) in this Report, and, of course, I tasted this wine first. I was shocked at just how rewarding and complex it was, and so when I eventually approached the Grand Vin, it was with a degree of trepidation. Could it soar above Croix Canon, as it should, or would it just taste like a darker and more backward creation? Before climbing into Canon, I also tasted two barrel samples of this wine in the cellar. One was taken from a new barrel, and the second from a 1-year-old barrel. The precise combination of these two exquisite flavours equals Canon. As I climbed the stairs from the cellar to the tasting room, I wondered if the potential shown in the cellar could be replicated in the blended wine. The answer is that Canon is nothing short of perfection in 2022. The flavours power on and then, without warning, unexpectedly grows even riper and richer, and this feeling of profound quality and nobility sensation lasts for an eternity. This is such a pleasing and engaging wine from the very first moment the flavour passes your lips. It then stays there, resplendent and proud. This is a standout wine for Canon, and the density, ripeness and long and keen-edged finish make it so thrilling. I cannot find even the slightest blemishes or imperfections in the whole Canon experience, and I think this will be one of the longest-lived wines in this property’s history. 98 Georgina Hindle – decanter.com (Mei 2023) A superb Canon in 2022. Supple, shiny, oh so charming, gorgeously sleek and well textured like pure silk but with density to the tannins that grips and coats the mouth, plus you know there's such power and concentration underneath in the waves of liquorice, stones, blackcurrant fruit. Extremely polished and charming. Vibrant, energetic, tense, and straight. It's not plush, more direct, but this wine thrills. Seamless and effortless, bright and energetic but with such a calm control and confidence. A stunning wine more for what it doesn't say than what it does in 2022. A yield of 45hl/ha. pH 3.5. 18 months ageing with 50% new oak. Harvest 30 August - 22 September. Drink 2025-2045. 97-98 Ella Lister – lefigaro.fr (Mei 2023) - «Une étreinte dont on ne voudrait jamais voir la fin» D'abord modéré, le bouquet révèle son pédigrée au fur et à mesure et devient envoûtant avec des arômes de fruits noirs, de bois précieux et d'épices douces, tandis qu'une brassée d'iris et de roses rouges et blanches apporte ses arômes tendres. La matière somptueuse est un régal qui remplit la bouche avec un côté plus adulte et majestueux que d'autres millésimes, frais, sur une trame calcaire très présente. La finale - des plus longues et salivantes - est charnue et radieuse comme une étreinte dont on ne voudrait jamais voir la fin. 99 Jeff Leve – thewinecellarinsider.com (Maart 2025) 98-100 Jeff Leve – thewinecellarinsider.com (Mei 2023) Dark in color, the wine kicks open the door with its floral bouquet. From there, you find in the perfume, crushed stone, red fruits, licorice, spice, and wild cherries. On the palate, the wine is perfectly balanced between elegance and finesse on one side, and silky, fresh, sexiness and sensuality on the other side. The fruit shows a remarkable sense of purity. There are no hard edges. The finish is seamless. This is the best vintage since 2015. And in time, it could even be better! Drink 2027-2060. 99 Alexandre Ma – alexandrema.com (Maart 2025) 97-99 Alexandre Ma – alexandrema.com (Mei 2023) CanonCanon is een Saint Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé die zijn sporen verdiende in een ver verleden. De aankomst in 1996 van de broers Wertheimer werd een kantelmoment. De eigenaars van Chanel pasten Haute Couture toe: vandaag is een typische Canon extreem elegant, fijn en complex. De wijngaard werd gaandeweg uitgebreid van 20,5 tot 34 hectare (31 in productie), na de aankoop van Curé Bon la Madeleine (plateau, argilo-calcaire) en Matras (de zuid-zuidwestelijke helling en pied de côte ten Zuiden). John Kolasa en nu Nicolas Audebert zetten orde op zaken. Twintig jaar “volstond” om Canon er weer helemaal te doen “staan”. Canon is vandaag the talk of town (in Bordeaux en tot ver daarbuiten) zeker sinds de legendarische 2015, 2016 en 2018. Er werd 70% Merlot en 30% Cabernet Franc aangeplant op een densiteit tussen 6.500 en 7.200 wijnstokken per hectare. De gemiddelde leeftijd van de wijngaard was 30 jaar in 2018. De bodem bestaat uit kalk onder een dunne laag klei op het plateau en zandering klei op de helling. AudebertNicolas Audebert is een wijnmaker van formaat en een tovenaar. Hij bouwde zijn carrière uit bij Champagne Krug en Cheval des Andes in Argentinië voordat de gebroeders Wertheimer hem aanstelden als opvolger van John Kolasa sinds 2015 op Château Canon, de Saint Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé, en Château Rauzan Ségla, Deuxième Grand Cru Classé Margaux. Zijn “coup d’essai” werd een “coup de maître”: zijn magische Canon 2015 is nu al de legende ingegaan. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||