{"id":7089,"date":"2013-04-25T17:46:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2013-04-25T17:46:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:46:34","slug":"bordeaux-2012-en-primeur-chateau-palmer-chateau-haut-bages-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/bordeaux-2012-en-primeur-chateau-palmer-chateau-haut-bages-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux 2012 En Primeur: Chateau Palmer &#038; Chateau Haut Bages Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst in Bordeaux, during primeur week, there was a bit of a buzz of excitement with some of the wines from Margaux \u2013 and amongst these Palmer was widely touted as one of the brighter stars in the vintage.\u00a0 As such it was with baited breath that we waited for the crucial question \u2013 at what price would it come out?\u00a0 Well now we know \u2013 we would certainly have hoped for it to be cheaper, but there you go.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-MARGAUX-1er-Cru-Classe-18582-00.html?category=121&amp;utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=Palmer+Btl&amp;utm_content=Palmer+HBL&amp;utm_campaign=Bdx+12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7090\" alt=\"Bordeaux En Primeur 2012 -Chateau Palmer-bottle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bordeaux-En-Primeur-2012-Chateau-Palmer-bottle.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-MARGAUX-1er-Cru-Classe-18582-00.html?category=121&amp;amp;utm_source=Blog&amp;amp;utm_medium=Palmer+Link&amp;amp;utm_content=Palmer+HBL&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Bdx+12\">2012 CH\u00c2TEAU PALMER 3\u00e8me Cru Class\u00e9 Margaux<\/a> &#8211; \u00a3855 per 6-pack.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is very good wine and has to be better value than either Angelus or Pavie that were released earlier today. Made by Thomas Durou, ex-winemaker from Tuscany&#8217;s renown Tenuta\u00a0dell&#8217;Ornellaia this is great wine, at a price..?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7091\" alt=\"Chateau Palmer-Thomas-Duroux\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chateau-Palmer-Thomas-Duroux.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"175\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also out on what has turned been quite a busy day for releases, is the rather good :<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-HAUT-BAGES-LIBERAL-5eme-Cru-Classe-Pauillac-Chateau-Haut-Bages-Liberal-18536-00.html?category=119&amp;utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=HBL+link&amp;utm_content=HBL&amp;utm_campaign=Bdx+12\">2012 CH\u00c2TEAU HAUT BAGES LIBERAL 5\u00e8me Cru Class\u00e9 Pauillac<\/a> &#8211; \u00a3240 per case of 12<\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-HAUT-BAGES-LIBERAL-5eme-Cru-Classe-Pauillac-Chateau-Haut-Bages-Liberal-18536-00.html?category=119&amp;utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=HBL+Btl&amp;utm_content=HBL&amp;utm_campaign=Bdx+12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7094\" alt=\"Bordeaux-2012-En-Primeur-Chateau-haut-Bages-Liberal-lea-sandeman-bottle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bordeaux-2012-En-Primeur-Chateau-haut-Bages-Liberal-lea-sandeman-bottle.png\" width=\"488\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Chateau Haut Bages Liberal. \u00a0This is quite a gentle, elegant style of Pauillac. No bluff and bluster.\u00a0 Soft attractive fruit and nice bones to keep this going for few years to come. We enjoyed tasting this, as did most of the critics, although Jancis was perhaps less overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7097\" alt=\"Bordeaux 2012 En Primeur - Claire Villars Lurton\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/claire-villars-lurton.jpg\" width=\"146\" height=\"221\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Made by Claire Villars, also owner and winemaker of Chateaux La Gurque and Ferri\u00e8re, this will be good drinking and is sensibly priced at \u00a3240 per case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst in Bordeaux, during primeur week, there was a bit of a buzz of excitement with some of the wines from Margaux \u2013 and amongst these Palmer was widely touted as one of the brighter stars in the vintage.\u00a0 As such it was with baited breath that we waited for the crucial question \u2013 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,316,315],"tags":[298,319,318,317],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux-primeurs","category-margaux","category-pauillac","tag-bordeaux2012","tag-chateau-haut-bages-liberal","tag-chateau-palmer","tag-en-primeur"],"contentshake_article_id":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bordeaux 2012 En Primeur: Chateau Palmer &amp; 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