Chateau Canon Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2019 [NET] NO20230927 and it makes an unusually

and it makes an unusually persuasive case for one of Italy's great and still-underappreciated grapes

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

Farmed organically since 1970 by the Fresneau family

Chateau Canon Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2019 [NET] NO20230927 and it makes an unusuallySaint 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.