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Chateau Canon2005

RED WINE

PUBLIC
April 2025
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Chateau Canon label
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  • Producer Chateau Canon
  • Blend 20% Cabernet Franc
    80% Merlot
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Saint-Emilion
  • UPC 0 15643 78004 2

Reviews

James Suckling 94

Aromas of fresh cep mushrooms, berries, spices, roses, and sous bois, give way to hints of milk chocolate and vanilla. Full and rich, with beautifully balanced tannins and a long finish. Loads going on in this wine, yet it remains subtle and beautiful.

by JS, James Suckling , 2012

Vinous Media 95

The 2005 Canon is all brawn and muscle. Chunky tannins give the 2005 a decidedly virile feel. There is plenty of depth and freshness - this is after all one of the very best sites in all of Bordeaux - so the 2005 will hold for many years to come. Dark fruit, leather, smoke, gravel, crushed rocks and spice linger on the potent finish. Tasting the 2005 today really highlights how far Canon has come in recent years.

by AG, Vinous Media , 2021

Wine Advocate 95

Tasted at the Chateau Canon vertical, the 2005 Canon is evolving into a quite gorgeous Saint Emilion. One can still discern those brown spices infiltrating the ripe red and black fruit. There is fine mineralite here, great focus, perhaps just a hint of dried blood that develops with time. The palate is medium-bodied with supple, ripe tannin. It is a very complex Saint Emilion with immense purity and style, a wine that you have to keep coming back to in order to understand. It's at that pivotal stage between primary and secondary notes, the red and black fruit being overtaken by cedar, morels and a touch of game. It gently lifts and fans out to a quite captivating finish. Dare I say that the 2005 Canon is the pick of the three over 2009 and 2010? There...I've said it...it is a quite brilliant wine.

by NM, Wine Advocate , 2017

Wine Enthusiast 93

Freshness and richness combine in this wine. There's a eucalyptus freshness that goes with the intense acidity. But alongside this is the dark, dense blackberry fruit that layers with the hints of wood. Keep this for six years before tasting, and then for many more.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2008

Wine Spectator 93

Shows a lightly roasted edge at first, with raspberry and boysenberry confiture notes laced with melted licorice, singed alder and firm graphite details. Reveals a fine chalky hint, but this has more bass than treble overall.

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2017

Technical Details

Growing Season

2005 was a year of drought. After a particularly dry winter (the moisture deficit reached as much as 70%), January and February were very cold, and then March was very mild and almost summer-like. April was the only month to have real rain. The budding and then the flowering (first week of June) were completed in quite quick time and in good weather conditions. The first signs of drought appeared as early as June bringing about a slowing down of vine shoot growth. The hot weather continued into July before letting up in August when the temperatures were cooler. Because of the lack of water, the size of the berries remained small and sugar content as well as total polyphenol content in the grapes at picking were high. The resulting wine had a magnificent, very deep colour, ripe yet fresh fruit flavours and an amazingly rich tannic structure. These qualities were preserved by Canon’s terroir and its cool limestone subsoil.

Harvest

Since the 2002 vintage, the introduction of a new harvest reception system has enabled us to take even greater care of the selection and handling of the grape bunches. After a painstaking selection in the vines, the best bunches are taken in small-sized crates to the vat cellar entrance. These are then carefully tipped on to a sorting table, where a team of 6 to 8 people removes any berries that are of lesser quality. After a gentle de-stemming, the berries are then sorted by 10 people who discard any berries which have not reached perfect ripeness. The crop is then placed in small 3 hectoliter stainless steel containers and emptied into the new stainless steel fermentation vats by gravity. Canon thereby avoids any aggressive handling of the crop through pumps and pipes.
Merlot : from September 16th to September 17th (the young vines)
from September 20th to September 27th
Cabernet Franc: from September 27th and 28th

Winery Technical Data

Appellation: 1er Grand Cru Classe B
Surface area of the vineyard: 22 hectares. 15.52 hectares in production
Yield: 35 hectolitres per hectare
Terroir: Clay-limestone plateau
Exposure: South / South-West
Grape varieties: 75 % Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc
Density of plantation: 5500 plants per hectare
Vineyard management: Double guyot pruning – Manual leaf thinning – Crop thinning before colour change – An environmentally – friendly spray programme.

Vinification

- Alcoholic fermentation for 10 days
- Maceration for 15 days in temperature-controlled oak vats with three daily pump-overs of half or the whole of the volume of the vat
- Malo-lactic fermentation in stainless steel vats and in barrels
- Ageing in barrels, 60 % of which are brand new, racking through the small bunghole at the end of the barrel every three months, fining with fresh egg whites and no filtering