Château Canon La Gaffelière 2018

France / Bordeaux / Saint-Émilion

Château Canon-la-Gaffelière is located on a hillside south of the medieval town of Saint-Émilion. Its terroir consists of clay-limestone and clay-sand soils with an extremely high heat capacity. The almost perfect balance of Merlot and Cabernet varieties, which is due to this soil composition, is rather untypical for the appellation. However, the Cabernets can develop excellently on the warm soils, which favor early ripening, and thus complement the opulence of the Merlots with extraordinary power and aromatic complexity. This is the basis for the natural elegance and finesse of the wines from Canon-la-Gaffelière.