{"id":6811,"date":"2013-04-22T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2013-04-23T08:35:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T08:35:23","slug":"2012-bordeaux-en-primeur-levangile-valandraud-carmes-haut-brion-sociando-mallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/2012-bordeaux-en-primeur-levangile-valandraud-carmes-haut-brion-sociando-mallet\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Bordeaux En Primeur &#8211;  L&#8217;Evangile, Valandraud, Duhart-Milon, Carmes Haut Brion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather too many wines at once today &#8211; the <strong>Lafite<\/strong> stable, which of course includes the top Pomerol <strong>l&#8217;\u00c9vangile<\/strong>\u00a0topping off a little rush of releases.<\/p>\n<p>A shame because there are some stories here &#8211; Jean-Luc Thunevin&#8217;s <strong>Valandraud (\u00a3895)<\/strong> has been elevated to 1er Grand Cru Class\u00e9 status from this year, and is a fab wine if you are into this sort of modern style &#8211; it is done with real panache. This is a whole 40% less than last year, and I do recommend it, although you need to like this full-on style.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jean-Luc-Thunevin-Chateau-Valandraud.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6829\" alt=\"Jean-Luc Thunevin - Chateau Valandraud\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jean-Luc-Thunevin-Chateau-Valandraud.png\" width=\"495\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>L&#8217;\u00c9vangile, <\/strong>in common with many of its Pomerol neighbours, is dramatically successful in the vintage. It has been coming up under the stewardship of regisseur Jean-Pascal Vazart, and the 2012 is a cracker &#8211; with a penetrating freshness which is uncommon in the vintage. <strong>Offered at \u00a31150 a dozen or \u00a3575 per six bottles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jean-Luc-Vazart-of-l\u00c9vangile1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6820\" alt=\"Jean-Luc Vazart of l'\u00c9vangile\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jean-Luc-Vazart-of-l\u00c9vangile1.png\" width=\"495\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carmes Haut Brion (\u00a3345)<\/strong>\u00a0is under new management and has made the best wine I have ever tasted from here and which I was looking forward to recommending, but the price is a little higher than I&#8217;d hoped. The new winemaker used a technique learned while he was at Chapoutier in the\u00a0Rhone, layering whole bunches and de-stemmed berries in the vats. The result is plump\u00a0and dark, full of fruit and savour, an impressive wine, if not, on my tasting, massively long, but many of my Bordeaux contacts whose taste\u00a0I trust have waxed lyrical about this vintage here\u00a0&#8211; as well as\u00a0its proximity to Haut Brion, its excellent terroir which has\u00a0previously been underwhelmingly represented by the winemaking, one even suggesting that, unclassified as it is,\u00a0\u00a0that it should be\u00a0considered\u00a0a potential future\u00a0P\u00e9trus of Pessac-Leognan! You heard it here first. Certainly its a very attractive wine which stands out in this vintage, so might be worth a punt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duhart-Milon<\/strong> was also offered this afternoon, at a price of<strong> \u00a3575 per dozen ib. <\/strong>A lovely wine, it is still a little hard to get one&#8217;s head round the effect of China on the market, and when one remembers that the 2008 was offered at a\u00a3275 per dozen, somehow this does does not look a\u00a0steal &#8211; but &#8211; it is true that the 2008 was a bargain and we called it as such at the time, and this is a lot less than the over \u00a3900 a case prices of the 2009 and 2010 vintages at release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather too many wines at once today &#8211; the Lafite stable, which of course includes the top Pomerol l&#8217;\u00c9vangile\u00a0topping off a little rush of releases. 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