Grands crus atlas
Area under vine at the estate, from its technical sheet — it does not change from one vintage to the next. Each vintage’s blend, by contrast, departs from it: that figures on its own page.
From revolutionary forerunner to refined architect, from aesthete to inventive genius, Château Canon has established itself as a wine of patience, recognised, renowned and distinguished as a Premier Grand Cru Classé.
Château Canon occupies a south-west-facing limestone terrace that makes up most of its surface area. A quarter of the estate lies on the slope of this hillside, which descends gently towards the Dordogne. This imposing mass of sedimentary rock is criss-crossed by numerous galleries, evidence of the quarrying of this building material since the 16th century. The site, which peaks at 87 metres, benefits from perfect ventilation and a walled enclosure that protects the vines from spring frosts. This setting allowed the château to be among the few estates to produce wine during the severe cold of 1766 and 1956.
Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2025 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.
| Vintage | Best score | Vintage character | Technical sheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | A dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness. | fiche · PDF |
| 2024 | — | A difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early. | fiche · PDF |
| 2023 | — | Mildew cost a good share of the harvest; what was brought in is early, fresh and promising. | PDF français |
| 2021 | — | Frost followed by a cool summer brought back classic wines, lighter and more taut, to be drunk in their youth. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2020 | — | An early, dry year gave splendid wines, which many rank above 2018. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2019 | — | A hot end of summer on rehydrated soils gave a rare balance between freshness and substance. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2018 | — | After the mildew, the heat concentrated a small harvest: rich, ripe and very dense wines. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2017 | — | Frost struck the slope-foot vines: the plateaus saved the day, and the vintage must be judged plot by plot. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2016 | — | A dry summer on full water reserves gave fresh, deep wines, magical on the asteria limestone. | fiche · PDF |
| 2012 | — | Merlots brought in just before the rain made for a vintage markedly more successful than on the Left Bank. | fiche · PDF |
| 2011 | — | A warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young. | fiche · PDF |
| 2010 | — | The dry summer and cool nights gave dense, tannic wines of extraordinary ageing potential — the exact opposite of 2009. | fiche · PDF |
| 2007 | — | A cool, wet summer gave light, silky wines, with a short ageing potential. | fiche · PDF |
| 2005 | — | A drought that never stalled ripening gave opulent, perfectly structured merlots: a legendary vintage. | PDF anglais |
| 1996 | — | PDF français |
“Best score”: the highest score recorded for this wine, with its source. “Character”: the overall reading of the year across the appellation, which an estate may depart from.
The estate’s grand vin and other cuvées, vintage by vintage: VinCod sheet and printable PDF.
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