2012

With a dense purple color and gorgeous levels of fruit especially black raspberry and blackcurrant this full-bodied opulent style of wine is another great success for Clinet a château that has been on top of its game for the... Read More

Tasted blind at the Valandraud vertical at the property the 2012 Valandraud instantly demonstrated the wide gap in quality between itself and the previous vintage. It is a blend of 88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet Franc matured for... Read More

Deep garnet in color the 2012 Ducru-Beaucaillou offers up expressive exuberant scents of warm kirsch black raspberries and wild blueberries with hints of sassafras cedar chest pencil lead and dried mint plus a waft of dried leaves.... Read More

"Close to perfection this extraordinary blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc seems to have hit all the high notes in 2012. Inky ruby/purple with stunning concentration a multidimensional mouthfeel skyscraper-like texture... Read More

Tasted blind at the 2012 Southwold tasting the 2012 Château Margaux has a taut linear pencil lead-infused bouquet with pure blackberry and boysenberry scents an undercurrent of tobacco that surfaces after five minutes in the... Read More

": An exceptionally fresh and relatively elegant nose features notes of various red berries earth and a discreet spiciness. There is a beguiling mouth feel to the medium-bodied concentrated and powerful flavors that are shaped... Read More

This eloquent Champagne has an enticing waft of Mandarin orange on the nose that continues on the palate which is layered with flavors of crushed blackberry and cassis toast chopped almond graphite and oyster shell. A bright finely-knit... Read More

"The 2012 Grands Echézeaux was picked on September 22 24 and 25 at 27 hectoliters per hectare. Compared to the Echézeaux the nose is more demure perhaps more refined does not feel the urge to "put it all out" as it were. Reticent... Read More

The 2012 La Tâche was picked September 25 and 27 at 21 hectoliters per hectare. It is blessed with one of those aromatic profiles that stops you in your tracks in some ways stops time itself. There is an intensity and drive here... Read More

"The 2012 Romanée St Vivant incidentally served before Richebourg rather than afterwards unlike previous years was picked on September 28 and 29 at 24 hectoliters per hectare. There is a wondrous ethereal purity to this 2012... Read More

The exuberance and drama in the stunning nose of the dense plum-colored 2012 Dominus offers up notes of Asian spice ripe black currants kirsch tobacco leaf and Christmas fruitcake. It is full-bodied and opulent with no hard edges... Read More

Francis Egly's 2012 Brut Grand Cru Millésime is predictably brilliant; but it's also a serious structured wine that will need time to unwind. Mingling notes of citrus oil pear and stone fruit with hints of freshly baked... Read More

This Rosé primarily expresses the qualities of the red wines. A blend of 65% Chardonnay and 35% Pinot Noir with 8% being vinified as a red wine. To obtain the bright radiance of the chalk, the Chardonnays are selected from... Read More

Gosset's emblematic Chardonnay-dominant 2012 Extra-Brut Celebris is a more than worthy successor to the 2008 unwinding in the glass with aromas of citrus oil verbena freshly baked bread green apple and wet stones followed... Read More

Bright red. Liqueur-like aromas of cherry red licorice and stone. Juicy and perfumed in the mouth but youthfully tight today showing good energy and perfume to its slightly medicinal flavors of red cherry liqueur and rose petal.... Read More

The 2012 Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Boudots is the richest and most immediate of the three Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Crus I tasted. The darkness of the vintage comes through in a huge Nuits that stands out for its opulent fruit and... Read More