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Another hugely exciting release this week as Canon’s opening price is announced. It is being offered by the international trade for £1,440 per 12×75, up 33.3% on the 2021’s opening price (£1,080 per 12×75).  Although it is a fair bit more expensive than the 2021 vintage, it gets a better score from Neal Martin and is still priced favourably compared to the 2015 and 2020 vintages. This means of the three 97 point wines of the last 10 years, the 2021 vintage is at the lowest price.

Neal Martin (Vinous) awarded the wine a barrel range of 96-98 points, highlighting the ‘beautifully-defined bouquet’ on the nose as a ‘triumph’ amidst 2022’s hot growing season. In his words: ‘one of the more intellectual and saline Canon wines in recent years’.

William Kelley (Wine Advocate) gave it a barrel range of 99-100 points. In his tasting note, he said: ‘From an estate that is delivering its greatest run of vintages since the superb Post War series that preceded the frosts of 1956, the 2022 Canon is a magical wine that will be worth every effort to track down’.

Jean-Marc Quarin scored it 98 points. He noted that ‘the wine melts and above all perfumes the mouth like never before, with less corpulence than in other vintages’ and added that it has ‘a taste profile without comparison in Bordeaux revealed by this very special vintage’.

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The second wine of Mouton Rothschild was released yesterday. It is being offered by the international trade for £2,196 per 12×75, a 7.7% increase on the 2021’s opening price (£2,040 a case). Petit Mouton’s price increase of just 7.7% makes it one of the smallest increases amongst ‘investable wines’ on the 2021 price. This wine tends to do very well on the secondary market. In fact the 2022 vintage is the second cheapest on the market as seen below.

Interestingly, Petit Mouton prices on Liv-ex are most heavily correlated with age rather than score. In fact every vintage from the last 10 years has gone up in value considerably. we will be taking our full allocation of this fantastic wine.

Neal Martin (Vinous) scored the wine 92-94 points. In his tasting notes, he describes how “it opens extremely confidently in the glass” and goes on to call it “an outstanding Le Petit Mouton.”

Lisa Perrotti-Brown (The Wine Independent) gave it a barrel range of 92-94+ points and mentions in her tasting note that the wine ‘needs considerable swirling to unlock notes of creme de cassis, stewed plums, and black cherries, with hints of charcoal, wood smoke, black olives, and tar’.

Jane Anson awarded it a score of 95 points and said it is ‘one of the first wines that made me see the potential greatness of the vintage’.

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