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RP
86
Robert Parker Wine Advocate
One of the best St.-Emilions in this vintage, this Canon is impressively dark ruby in color without any amber, and has tannic and youthful flavors. It exhibits good concentration, depth, and body, but the tannins are still foreboding. Canon's 1979 is a young, muscular wine with potential, but will the fruit hold up? Anticipated maturity: Now-2003. Last tasted, 1/91.
Reviewed by Robert M. Parker, Jr, Issue date: January 1998. Drinking window: 1991-2003.
1979 Chateau Canon Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, France
Canon’s wines reflect the huge rigour of the saint-emilion plateau. Freshness hones the huge voluptuousness. A pure, clean nectar that draws all of the minerality’s tension. A fine wine. The protruding power of the vine rooted in the rock.
PERSONALITY
Château Canon offers a masterful, full, direct personality. The opulence of the fruit creates tension with the mineral freshness. A game of light and shadows between the quarries and the plateau. Reflecting the vineyard’s density of sunlight.
Indomitable fullness. A favourite. Ageing potential.
THE TENSION & MINERALITY OF THE PLATEAU
This refined, slender and vertical vintage owes its balance to the sophisticated structure from the limestone soils.