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2015 Château Canon-la-Gaffelière, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Merlot (50%),Cabernet Franc (40%),Cabernet Sauvignon (10%)
Ready - youthful
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
97/100
Product: 20158125035
2015 Château Canon-la-Gaffelière, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Description

Saturated but not impenetrable colour, with a plum note on the nose allied to some coolness and blackcurrant. There is a high percentage of both Cabernets here – 38% Cabernet Franc and 7% Cabernet Sauvignon – which add structure and freshness to the richer Merlot red fruit and makes you think of Figeac. Fine tannins and medium body show that this isn’t overworked, a trait often seen in the past with St. Emilion. This is right up there with the 2009 and 2010. Give it a decade in the cellar and this will be highly rewarding.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2015
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Merlot (50%),Cabernet Franc (40%),Cabernet Sauvignon (10%)
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Château Canon-La-Gaffelière

Critics reviews

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 97/100
Composed of 55% Merlot, 38% Cabernet Franc and 7% Cabernet Sauvignon and aged in French oak, 55% new, for 17 months, the 2015 Canon la Gaffeliere features a deep garnet-purple color and a cedar-laced nose to begin, giving way to fragrant underlying scents of roses and violets with a core of crushed black currants, blackberries and Bing cherries plus hints of fallen leaves and dusty earth. Medium to full-bodied, the seductively perfumed red and black fruit fills the mouth, framed with plush tannins and plenty of freshness, finishing very long and minerally.Lisa Perrotti-Brown - 21/02/2018
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, (Feb 2018)

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Château Canon-la-Gaffeliere

Château Canon-la-Gaffelière is owned by Comte von Neipperg. Located in the centre of the St.Emilion appellation, due south of St.Emilion town, the property has a similar climate to that enjoyed by both St.Emilion and Pomerol: more continental than the maritime Médoc, with generally more spring rainfall, though less in summer and winter.
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