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2020 - Grand Vin Château Canon Chaigneau
2020 - Grand Vin Château Canon Chaigneau
Our sensational 2020s are in bottle and available for your cellar!
2020 is 'truly exceptional, highly unique and an utterly spectacular vintage’ wrote Colin Hay, and ranks amongst the best ever here at Canon Chaigneau!
We are thrilled with the quality of our 2020. The summer was, of course, hot and sunny, after a wet spring, and we had just about the right amount of hydric stress. High sugars and potential alcohol, the fruit was dense, opulent, and juicy. It’s our first vintage 100% in charge and we increased selection (more hands on the sorting table) harvesting/ vinifying parcel by parcel also for the first time ever. We harvested over 17 days ensuring optimal maturity. We have a few parcels on very thick and gluey dense clay. We had quite a bit of juice, total yields of around 53 hl and performed a saignée of around 5% for the first time. Vinification in 44-153 HL cement cuves and a selection made it into 20 new and 20 one-year-old 500 litre barrels, from Sylvain, Taransaud and Demptos. The grand vin includes 2% of the press wine, which we pressed very gently this year.
"This is a wine you’ll tell people about for years to come. And you can enjoy for years to come too. A wonderful expression of the quality of the fabulous 2020 vintage, with opulence balanced by freshness, and rich, fine, serious tannins."
A Unique Terroir
The Néac plateau. One of the finest wines of the appellation, and one of the best value wines in France - medium bodied, not over extracted, complex, suave & extremely drinkable, typically with notes of truffle, black fruits, spice and cacao.
A Legendary Winemaker
Thierry Garnaud was maître de chai at Cheval Blanc from 1988 – 2018, responsible for such 100 Point Legends as the 1990, '98, 2000, '03, '05, '06, '08, '10, '15 & 2016.
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