Chateau Canon Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2019 [NET] NO20230927 this blend of majority Meunier

this blend of majority Meunier and Chardonnay offers a discreet nose

which was regrafted onto Merlot vines rooted in sandy soil since 2008

the Wagner family has built a house style that's unabashedly generous—ripe

The 2023 is young

while the palate coasts with grippy tannins and notes of salted licorice

Chateau Canon Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2019 [NET] NO20230927 this blend of majority MeunierSaint milion Premier Grand Cru Class, owned since 1996 by the Wertheimer family of Chanel and the wine has, frankly, never been better. Canon sits up on the limestone plateau just outside the village of Saint milion, the terroir that gives the appellation's most aromatic, mineral driven wines. 2019 was an exceptional year on the Right Bank, and this is Canon at its most seamless: ripe but lifted, deeply fruited but framed by that cool limestone spine.