Château Canon-la-Gaffelière 2025
St-Emilion 1er Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£258.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: Yes | Drink from: 2032 |
| Biodynamic: Yes | Drink to: 2045 |
| Grapes: 45% Cabernet Franc, 40% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon | |
Critic scores
91-93 NM, 94-96 AG, 96.97 JS, 92-94 JD, 94-96 LPB, 94 JA, 95 DC, 95-97 JL, 95-97 DB
Critic reviews
"The 2025 Canon La Gaffelière includes only 40% Merlot this year, the remainder, 45% Cabernet Franc and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, picked between September 16 and 19. Matured in 30% new oak barrels, this has a tightly wound nose with blackberry, briar and chalky scents, the Cabernet Franc imparting light graphite scents. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins on the entry. licorice-tinged black fruit, again, a little chalky in texture, but there is more suppleness compared to the Clos de l'Oratoire on the finish. Promising."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Canon La Gaffelière is bright and beautifully focused right out of the gate. Orange peel, sage, mint, pipe tobacco, dried flowers and mocha soar out of the glass. Floral aromatics and brisk saline notes are the signatures in a tightly wound Canon La Gaffelière that is going to need a number of years to be at its most expressive. I especially admire the energy here."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"High pumice stone grip, certainly very much on the limestone character, attractive and with plenty of lift and grip, and an underlying and highly attractive drama from grilled sandalwood and incense oak notes. A more subdued Canon la Gaffelière at this early stage, will widen and deepen over ageing. Yield 35 hl/ha. 30% new oak for ageing."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Beautiful aromatics, floral notes and Chinese five spice with some sweet red berry fruit. Juicy and lifted, a really lovely calm, chiselled and soft frame with velvety tannins and ripe but cool fruit. Acidity is not too tight and this has a generous but controlled element. Balanced and poised but maybe missing a touch more density of fruit. Lovely layering of texture and aromatic complexity."
, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Émilion; 40% Merlot; 45% Cabernet Franc; 15% Cabernet Sauvignon; a final yield of 35 hl/ha; 13% alcohol; tasted at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin and at Canon-La-Gaffèliere with Stephan and Ludovic von Neipperg; certified organic). This is so gracious, so very Canon-La-Gaffèliere, with a Cabernet Franc signature that is omnipresent and that renders this so beautifully beguiling. But let's not restrict this to the aromatics. For what we have, just as crucially, is a sumtpuous mouthfeel, quite an ample frame, above all on the attack, and a lovely pillowy, cashmere texture in the mouth. The majority of Cabernet fruit in the blend really makes this sing in 2025. This feels reassuring indulgent, generous, opulent but never blowsy, elegant and refined. We have both amplitude and crystallinity. There's a lovely luminous quality to this and it will, I am sure, age very gracefully. My favourite recent vintage of this. So measured and refined on the finish with brilliant clarity. "
, DrinksBusiness.com
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Canon La Gaffelière is bright and beautifully focused right out of the gate. Orange peel, sage, mint, pipe tobacco, dried flowers and mocha soar out of the glass. Floral aromatics and brisk saline notes are the signatures in a tightly wound Canon La Gaffelière that is going to need a number of years to be at its most expressive. I especially admire the energy here."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"High pumice stone grip, certainly very much on the limestone character, attractive and with plenty of lift and grip, and an underlying and highly attractive drama from grilled sandalwood and incense oak notes. A more subdued Canon la Gaffelière at this early stage, will widen and deepen over ageing. Yield 35 hl/ha. 30% new oak for ageing."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Beautiful aromatics, floral notes and Chinese five spice with some sweet red berry fruit. Juicy and lifted, a really lovely calm, chiselled and soft frame with velvety tannins and ripe but cool fruit. Acidity is not too tight and this has a generous but controlled element. Balanced and poised but maybe missing a touch more density of fruit. Lovely layering of texture and aromatic complexity."
, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Émilion; 40% Merlot; 45% Cabernet Franc; 15% Cabernet Sauvignon; a final yield of 35 hl/ha; 13% alcohol; tasted at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin and at Canon-La-Gaffèliere with Stephan and Ludovic von Neipperg; certified organic). This is so gracious, so very Canon-La-Gaffèliere, with a Cabernet Franc signature that is omnipresent and that renders this so beautifully beguiling. But let's not restrict this to the aromatics. For what we have, just as crucially, is a sumtpuous mouthfeel, quite an ample frame, above all on the attack, and a lovely pillowy, cashmere texture in the mouth. The majority of Cabernet fruit in the blend really makes this sing in 2025. This feels reassuring indulgent, generous, opulent but never blowsy, elegant and refined. We have both amplitude and crystallinity. There's a lovely luminous quality to this and it will, I am sure, age very gracefully. My favourite recent vintage of this. So measured and refined on the finish with brilliant clarity. "
, DrinksBusiness.com