Primeurs 2023
BEYOND PARADOX
Rigour, vigour. Threatening weather awakening the vine’s energy.
Presence, distance. Women and men working in complete discretion.
Expectations, surprise. Familiar varieties sparking amazement.
It’s all in the result: magnetic, pure attraction born out of opposites.
An ethereal wine with the quiet power of a wave — and rolling on and on, from subtlety to subtlety.
All the Canon elegance, amplified.
TERROIR
WATER, FIRE.
ON THE PLATEAU, A MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES.
Nervous climate, atmospheric jolts.
The sky one way, then the other
While winter dries out, spring exhales.
A solstice, an equinox.
Then summer itself starts to zig-zag.
July with cool nights and fiery days.
August blows cold, then hot.
Then hottest of all, September heatwaves.
The cycle of the vine persists through dry and wet.
Energy on every front – the impulse of life.
And through every threat, insolent flowers,
For the vine has limestone as its ally.
Before the tyrannical weather, the stone ever stoic.
The deep vein silent and firm beneath the agitation on the surface.
A mineral lung inhales and exhales the rains.
Terroir, as always, in response to excess.
So it goes for human hands, from devotion to discretion. And vice versa. Firm or restrained, care in every movement.
KNOWLEDGE
MOMENTUM, PATIENCE.
LEARN, PHILOSOPHER, TO CHANGE DIRECTION.
A reed among the vines,
Bending in stiff weather.
Because nature, and nature alone, sets the pace. Stand to attention, at ease. Planned, unplanned.
No lunacy for the calendar.
Weekday, weekend: always there.
Early morning, late at night: still there.
Drop into the splits, an acrobat’s commitment.
And even the tasks change from day to day.
What to do or not do? Gather the clues.
Yesterday, lift the shoots. Today, lavish your attention.
Tomorrow, absolutely do not touch anything (don’t expose the vine).
Then, suddenly, at the ready — harvest time.
So it goes for human hands,
from devotion to discretion. And vice versa.
Firm or restrained, care in every movement.
GRAPE VARIETY
71%
29%
WINE
TENSIONS, PAIRINGS.
PARADOX ALWAYS MELTS INTO ELEGANCE.
Varieties showing off.
Playing, feinting. Being one, miming the other.
Here comes Merlot, classically round.
Yet explosive spice marks the palate.
Then, Cabernet Franc:
Expected sharp, it comes carpeted in flowers.
Back-and-forth between vivacity and velvet.
Nature laughs, swapping its traits.
Lastly, the blend — magnetic resonance:
Opposites attract, drawn together.
New energy within, like seamless tension.
Elegance emerges: fresh, dense, palpitating.
A powerful heart of blossom and raspberries,
And pepper, almost menthol, in a concentric echo.
A long finish of frisson. A saline climax.
All the intensity of the Canon signature.
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