Saint-Émilion Grand Cru

Chateau Canon is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

The different steps in the vineyard management calendar are scrupulously respected throughout the year: double guyot pruning, removal of secondary buds, suckers remond, then green fruit "harvesting" and thining out on the growing vines. The final ripeness test announces the beginning of the harvest, which is strictly by hand only. Chateau Canon has chosen to manage its plots sustainably, ensuring the perfect ripeness and making it easier to identify the best batches of fruit, which are vinified separately. The policy is clearly one designed to foster environmental preservation.

Vinification is traditional: up to 20 days in temperature-controlled wooden vats followed by 18 months' maturation in oak barrels (70% new).

The different plots of vines total 54 acres of very uniform soil types which is the first hint that Chateau Caonon is unusual with respect to the rest of the Saint Emilion area. The Subltle combination of limestone containing fossilized starfish covered by a thin layer of clay left behind by a prehistoric lake constitute an ideal environment for the grape varieties highlighting the expression of their characteristics. Fresh yet not very rich this type of soil is a perfectly balanced medium for the vines that keeps yields down while enhancing quality. The different steps in the vineyard management calendar are scrupulously respected throughout the year. Chateau Canon manages its plots sustainably ensuring perfect ripeness and making it easier to identify the best batches of fruit which are vinified separately. The policy is clearly to foster environmental preservation.