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Château Canon Chaigneau

Bijou de 21ha en Lalande-de-Pomerol vinifié par l'ancien maître de chai de Cheval Blanc.

02/09/2026

Twenty plots, twenty different schedules😅
Harvest isn’t one day, and it isn’t one decision. Each plot ripens at its own pace, so each plot gets picked on its own date, with pauses in between.
Picking everything at once would mean picking most of it at the wrong moment. So we work through the plan on the wall, one plot at a time.
Last slide: (one of) the best view on the estate🥹

🇫🇷 20 parcelles, vingt rythmes différents.
Une vendange, ce n’est pas une date : c’est une suite de décisions, parcelle par parcelle, avec des pauses entre deux!

28/08/2026

And just like that… the first two days of Harvest 2026 are done 🍇
7 hectares harvested already.. As expected, there isn’t a huge amount of juice this year… but what we may be missing in quantity, we’re definitely making up for in quality. The grapes coming in are looking seriously good. 🤞🍷

Now, don’t be fooled by the weekend… the vineyard may be taking a little break, but there’s still plenty to do in the cellar.

We’ll be back in the vines on Monday, with plenty more harvest adventures (and probably a few surprises) to share.

🇫🇷 En bref : deux premières journées de vendanges plutôt classiques, avec peu de jus comme attendu, mais des raisins d’une qualité exceptionnelle 🤞🍇 7 hectares vendangés sur 21 ! Et même si le week-end est là, le travail continue au chai… On vous retrouve lundi pour la suite des aventures !

26/08/2026

Harvest starts tomorrow. 27 August, the earliest in our records.

We weren’t expecting this. After weeks of drought the vines had almost stopped; then a few days of rain, and on some parcels the berries took up water fast. Once that starts, every day of waiting costs you concentration. We tasted, and we made the call.

For scale: our previous earliest was 2003, the famous heat year, and even then we didn’t pick until 4 September. Tomorrow is a week ahead of that.

Swipe for what this vintage looks like, and for the question a lot of you have been asking us about the fires.

🇫🇷 Les vendanges commencent demain, le 27 août : la date la plus précoce de nos archives. Après des semaines de sécheresse, quelques jours de pluie ont fait repartir la maturation rapidement sur certaines parcelles. À partir de là, attendre coûte de la concentration : on a goûté, et on a tranché. Pour situer, notre précédent record était 2003, et on avait quand même attendu le 4 septembre.

31/07/2026

We are safe, and so is the vineyard. Thank you to everyone who wrote to check on us this past week. It meant more than you know.
This post is a very basic one. Journalists and emergency services are documenting this far better than we can, and we would point you to them first. But after so many messages, staying quiet felt wrong, and so did carrying on about tastings as if nothing were happening.
So here is where things stand. What burned, where, and where we sit in relation to it.
Our thoughts are with the families who lost their homes, and with the firefighters who have been at this since 22 July. The last slide has the links, if you want to help.

🇫🇷Nous allons bien, le vignoble n’a rien.
Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui ont pris de nos nouvelles cette semaine. Ce post est très simple, la presse documente tout cela bien mieux que nous. Mais après tous vos messages, il nous semblait impossible de continuer à parler de dégustations sans rien dire.
Nos pensées vont aux familles qui ont tout perdu et aux pompiers mobilisés depuis le 22 juillet. Les liens pour aider sont sur la dernière image.

06/07/2026

The work nobody films. 🌿
Late June at the château, and the team is moving through every row by hand, removing the unwanted shoots growing from the base of the vine before they steal energy from the fruit.
It’s called épamprage. No machines, no shortcuts. Just eyes close to the wood and fingers that know what to remove.
This is what the growing season actually looks like.

🇫🇷 Fin juin au château, c’est l’épamprage, le retrait à la main des gourmands et des rejets au pied des ceps, pour que la vigne concentre toute son énergie sur les raisins. Un travail discret, répété rang après rang, mais qui compte.

**ery **emaking

09/06/2026

Best sounds? Saved until last. (And some are very scary!)
People always imagine vineyards as quiet places.
Sometimes they are. Sometimes they really aren’t.
Birdsong, tractors, the bottling line (the ‘bottle dance’), the printer running customised labels for our clients, us talking (always too much!) every sound here means something is happening. Something is being made.
Someone asked me recently what the scariest sound at a vineyard is. Without thinking, I said: helicopters.Because it means frost is here, and someone is fighting to save their harvest.
This is what Canon Chaigneau sounds like. 🎧
Turn on the sound 🔊

🇫🇷 Le vignoble, ce n’est pas que le silence et les oiseaux. Chaque son raconte quelque chose, et certains font vraiment peur!

**e **elovers

04/06/2026

Some pairings were obvious. Some might surprise you. A few we’re still not sure about.
Le Rosé, Cabernet Franc & Petit Verdot, pale pink, floral, with that lively freshness that makes it dangerously easy to open on a Tuesday.
This is our honest (and a bit subjective) take.. Yours might look completely different. That’s exactly the point.
What’s the most unexpected thing you’ve paired with a rosé? Drop it below, we’re genuinely curious.
Part 2 coming soon! Which w**e should we do next?

🇫🇷On a testé plein d’accords avec notre Rosé et on les a classés honnêtement, certains étaient évidents, d’autres nous ont surpris, quelques-uns on hésite encore. C’est notre avis subjectif, le vôtre sera peut-être très différent. Dites-nous votre accord le plus inattendu, et votez pour le vin de la partie 2 !

31/05/2026

When I became a mother, we started looking for a vineyard.

Our son was just a baby when we started visiting w**e estates across France and Spain! He came to vineyard visits, tastings and harvests before he could even speak.

A few months after deciding to take over Château Canon Chaigneau, I found out I was pregnant with our daughter. She was due right around harvest. Somehow, she waited until our very first harvest as vineyard owners was over before making her entrance.

Looking back, motherhood and this vineyard have grown side by side. There was no perfect timing, no long maternity leave, no pause button.. Just a lot of uncertainty, hard work, exhaustion… and joy!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums building families, businesses, dreams… or simply doing their best every day. ❤️

🇫🇷 La maternité et l’aventure de Château Canon Chaigneau ont commencé presque en même temps.
Depuis, elles grandissent côte à côte. ❤️
Bonne fête à toutes les mamans.

**e

29/05/2026

Château Canon Chaigneau ticked almost none of our original boxes! 🙃
Looking back, this vineyard search was a lot less glamorous than it sounds…
At one point, Romik quite literally almost fell down a hillside (see slide 4 😂).
We visited more than 25 w**e estates across France, and even into Spain, with a toddler in the backseat, takeaway sandwiches between appointments, and absolutely no certainty we’d ever find “the one”..
And we weren’t looking for 21 hectares, nor were we looking for a project quite this ambitious.

But some places (and in this case, w**es and terroir!) stay with you long after you’ve left.

But some places (and here in this case, w**es and terroir!) stay with you. Even after you’ve left.

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Château Canon Chaigneau ne cochait presque aucune de nos cases de départ! Nous avons visité plus de 25 domaines viticoles à travers la France (et même jusqu’en Espagne !) avant de trouver Château Canon Chaigneau.

Ce qui est assez drôle, c’est qu’au départ nous imaginions un projet beaucoup plus petit, dans une autre région, et certainement pas un domaine de 21 hectares.

Mais parfois, un lieu, un terroir et des vins s’imposent comme une évidence. Et celui-ci ne nous a jamais vraiment quittés.

Vineyard life. Family adventures. Bordeaux. W**e. Terroir.

19/05/2026

A few years ago, we were simply dreaming of a (small?) vineyard.
Today, bottles from our corner of Lalande-de-Pomerol travel far beyond the vines: Singapore, Spain, England, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Cambodia…
Not because we planned a global brand. But because w**e has a beautiful way of creating connections, conversations, and unexpected journeys.
This is only the beginning of “Canon Chaigneau, Elsewhere.”
From Lalande de Pomerol, Néac, to everywhere life takes us!

🇫🇷 Le voyage d’un vignoble familial à travers le monde!

**ejourney

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Lieudit Chagneau
Néac
33500

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http://www.canonchaigneau.com/

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