Château Canon Pécresse 2024

Gorgeous aromatics of iodine, pencil lead, graphite, liquorice and cola. Juicy and clean, this is silky-smooth with fine tannins that turn towards a fairly salty grip on the finish. The cooling blue fruit becomes more serious and it ends with some compaction. It still feels stylish and a true expression of the vineyard. There’s ripeness here too, lots going on. Packed with flavour, with limestone grip all the way through. A sure buy!

Bright, fresh, floral, and vibrant, the strawberries, cherries, and plums are already expressive on the nose and on the mineral-edged palate. You can enjoy this on release and for up to a decade after release. Drink from 2027–2039. 89–91 pts

A touch austere, the nose reveals a few red and black fruit aromas, like subliminal messages. Intense and fleshy, the palate shows fine volume, carried by velvety tannins. The black fruit is well defined and the fresh, slightly tangy backbone brings energy to the finish, highlighted by intense peppery notes.

As with much of Fronsac, there was clearly no issue getting lovely deep plum colour out of the grapes, and the opening majors on cloves, cocoa bean, liquorice, slate, wet stones, crayon, good quality, but the austerity turns things up high on the finish.

Dark, intense colour. Somewhat discreet nose with ripe fruit aromas. Precise on the attack and juicy through the mid-palate, the wine develops pleasantly, a touch austere but flavoursome. Medium body and length.