Wonderful nose with strawberries, cherry blossom, and vanilla. The red opens up with blueberries, milk chocolate and sweet licorice. Full and juicy on palate with pure dark fruit and velvety tannins. So nicely layered texture and long in the finish with red fruit and crushed chalk. The texture is superb. Drink from 2018.
-www.jamessuckling.com, 'Tasting Report: 2010 Bordeaux "More Great Vintage"', 3 Feb 2012

(95-96 pts)
Blackberries and hints of spices and fresh herbs. This is so tasty. It has wonderful round and juicy tannins, with lots of fruit yet subtle and spicy, with chocolate and light coffee. So yummy. Hard not to drink it. This is a classic style of Canon, such as 1955 or 1959. Better than 2009.

Tasted at the Union de Grand Cru in London. The Canon 2010 has a reticent nose despite rigorous coaxing. Yet there is certainly good definition and plenty of sharp red brambly fruits within. The palate is much more expressive. It is supremely well balanced with lovely ripe espresso-tinged black fruit and a compelling sense of harmony and focus. The finish is crisp, beautifully defined with a spicy note lingering on the aftertaste. This has great potential – but it will need time. Tasted November 2012.

(90-92 pts)
Tasted at the chateau, the Canon is a blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc including 10% vin de presse, representing 70% of the crop. It was picked between 23th September and 6th October. It has a dark ruby colour. The nose is fairly high toned and primal with pomegranate, redcurrant and blueberry: a bouquet that is relatively “glossy” for Canon. The palate is very smooth on the entry; plush and rounded, lower acidity than I was expecting with rounded, very sweet crème de cassis, blueberry and plum on the svelte finish. I would like to see a little more backbone and dryness on the finish, a little too generous at this stage. Re-tasting the 2009, I find a little more tension and edginess on the previous offering. Drink 2013- Tasted March 2011.

St Emilion 1er Grand Cru Classé (60% harvest, 35hl/ha, 14.5%) [75M/25CF] A freshly ripe, not raisiny ripe, fruit to smell; very nicely balanced, moderately concentrated middleweight with a fine, firmish tannin and a lively acidity; ripe, transparent flavour, pure, subtle, complex and limestone tinged, with a gentley, savoury tannin, a touch of the year’s warmth and lovely fruit persistence on its long finish. This is what good balance is about. A first rate Canon for the second year running. 2022-40+ [M.Schuster, Bordeaux Mar/Apr 2011]

Ripe, with dark blackberry and linzer torte fruit laced nicely with the racy, mouthwatering acidity and strong graphite spine of the vintage. Long, driven and very solid, with serious, charcoal-tinged grip. —J.M.

An elegant, attractive blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc cropped at 35 hectoliters per hectare, this wine tips the scales at 15% natural alcohol which, given the more elegant style sought at Canon, tells readers a lot about how powerful the 2010 vintage was across all the appellations of Bordeaux. Exhibiting plenty of raspberry, blueberry and black cherry fruit as well as some crushed rock/chalky minerality and a floral note, this very impressive Canon is backward, structured and precise. Give it 7-8 years of bottle age and drink it over the following three decades. Drink: 2020 - 2050

Canon’s vineyard measures 50+ acres, and the wine is looked after by well-known consultant Gilles Pauquet.
-Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #205 Feb 2013

(92-94+ pts)
2010: Along with the brilliant 2009, the 2010 Canon appears to be the finest wine made at this estate since the 1982. Aficionados of this 50-acre vineyard situated on the top of the St.-Emilion plateau will have fun comparing the 2009 and 2010 over the next 30 years. Composed of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc that hit 15% natural alcohol (a record here), the 2010 offers up perfumed notes of spring flowers, crushed chalk, black currants, black cherries, earth, forest floor and oak. Full-bodied as well as elegant and precise, this brilliant effort needs 5-8 years of cellaring and should drink well for three decades or more.