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94 JG. "The 1947 Canon is a beautiful example of this ripe and powerful vintage, but with as it closes in on age sixty-five, it has mellowed into a velvety and utterly refined bottle of claret. The deep, complex and hauntingly vibrant nose offers up a lovely mélange of fresh and roasted cherries, blood orange, nutskins, sweet Cuban tobacco, the last vestiges of the menthol of youth, chipotle peppers, complex soil tones and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, fullish and intensely flavored, with a lovely core of fruit, seamless balance, superb complexity and a very long, suave and meltingly tannic finish. This wine is interesting in that it starts out after being opened very red fruity and pure, with the more roasted and smoky character of the ’47 vintage building as the wine unfolds in the decanter. At the two hour mark the wine was still at its apogee and the last glass was the most complex and satisfying of all. A superb ’47 with years and years of life still in it." John Gilman, View From the Cellar, Jul/Aug 2010, Issue #28 |