2025 Chateau Canon Saint Emilion Grand Cru FUTURES Prearrival

This is a BHW Direct Import/Ex-Chateau item. This is a futures item that is expected to deliver in 2028. 

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Chateau Canon is Saint-Emilion royalty — a Premier Grand Cru Classe estate owned by Chanel's Wertheimer brothers since 1996, with roots reaching back to 1760. Under their stewardship, the property has been transformed: cellars gutted and rebuilt with gravity-fed systems, vineyards meticulously regenerated, and Nicolas Audebert — formerly of Argentina's Cheval des Andes — installed as head winemaker in 2014. The result is a decade-long run of exceptional wines, with critics calling the 2015 the best in the estate's history and the 2018, 2019, and 2020 vintages nearly as profound.

The 2025 vintage was a study in paradox — the third hottest summer in thirty years, yet late-August rains replenished bone-dry soils and steered the harvest toward balance and poise rather than heat-driven power. The estate's limestone terroir — slate, chalk, and pumice stone — shines through with unusual clarity. The blend is 76% Merlot and 24% Cabernet Franc, the "meat and bones" of Canon according to Audebert, brought up in 52% new French oak.

In the glass, the 2025 delivers vivid iris flowers, blue fruit, and crushed stone minerality. Jane Anson calls it "deft, skilful, rooted in place," with "bright and vivid iris flowers" pushing momentum across a palate that "stops, takes a breath, then kicks off again with a new layer of nuanced understated toasted spice." Antonio Galloni awarded it 98-100 points, calling it "a total stunner" with "tons of the vintage's textural intensity along with all the vibrant, saline energy that is such a signature here." William Kelley notes the estate's "brilliant decade-long run" and praises the wine's "bright spine of acidity and long, penetrating finish."

Canon is famously slow to open — often requiring 10 to 15 years in bottle — and is one of the longest-lived wines in Saint-Emilion. The 2025 is built for the long game, but even now it shows the mineral-driven precision and textural depth that make this estate essential. This is Bordeaux at its most refined — and at $133, it's the inside line on a property that has never been better.