{"id":7104,"date":"2013-04-26T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7104"},"modified":"2014-04-30T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:52:25","slug":"2012-bordeaux-chateau-talbot-and-connetable-talbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/2012-bordeaux-chateau-talbot-and-connetable-talbot\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Bordeaux &#8211; Ch\u00e2teau Talbot and Conn\u00e9table Talbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>2012 Bordeaux &#8211; Ch\u00e2teau Talbot and Conn\u00e9table Talbot<\/h3>\n<p>All has now gone a bit quiet as Bordeaux prepares for one of those funny weeks in May when there are so many holidays that it is tempting for them to <em>&#8216;faire le pont&#8217;<\/em> at both ends of the week and not actually turn up at all.\u00a0Also the Robert Parker scores are due out tonight, so those who have not yet &#8216;come out&#8217; may be spending the afternoon in prayer.<\/p>\n<p>If you want some weekend reading you can catch up with the <strong><a title=\"The L&amp;S primeurs blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/Bordeaux2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 campaign\u00a0blog posts so far<\/a><\/strong>, or see our rather short lists of recommended wines:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/offer\/273\/Recommended%20M\u00e9doc%20&amp;%20Graves.html\">Recommended M\u00e9doc &amp; Graves<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/offer\/274\/Recommended%20Right%20Bank.html\">Recommended Right Bank<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of my favourite wines this year (with price\/quality always in mind)\u00a0was <strong>Talbot<\/strong>, which amongst some surprisingly lacklustre Saint Juliens (Lagrange, Beychevelle\u00a0 &#8211; actually not <em>so<\/em> surprising for the latter), really stood out. Annoyingly this is the first vintage since 1994 that I have not actually tasted Talbot at the Ch\u00e2teau, but both the second wine <strong>Conn\u00e9table<\/strong> and Talbot itself stood out at both my tastings and David Porter&#8217;s. <em><strong>This is top Talbot<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Talbot-2012.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7115\" alt=\"Talbot 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Talbot-2012.png\" width=\"495\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can all this be down to the St\u00e9phan D\u00e9renencourt effect? They only took him on as consulting oenologist last year, so whatever they are paying him, he\u00a0is worth it!<\/p>\n<p>You can reproach them for not reducing their price this year, but given that last year both Connetable and Talbot sold out from many Bordeaux n\u00e9gociants, sticking with the same level does have a certain logic. It&#8217;s worth it. Also available in any size you like &#8211; we tend to buy quite a lot of halves for later, but you may prefer to think mags and double-mags.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Gates-of-Talbot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7113\" alt=\"Gates of Talbot\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Gates-of-Talbot.png\" width=\"495\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 Bordeaux &#8211; Ch\u00e2teau Talbot and Conn\u00e9table Talbot All has now gone a bit quiet as Bordeaux prepares for one of those funny weeks in May when there are so many holidays that it is tempting for them to &#8216;faire le pont&#8217; at both ends of the week and not actually turn up at all.\u00a0Also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,80],"tags":[298,320],"class_list":["post-7104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-bordeaux-primeurs","tag-bordeaux2012","tag-talbot"],"contentshake_article_id":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2012 Bordeaux - Ch\u00e2teau Talbot and Conn\u00e9table Talbot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2012 Bordeaux - Ch\u00e2teau Talbot and Conn\u00e9table Talbot All has now gone a bit quiet as Bordeaux prepares for one of those funny weeks in May when there are\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/2012-bordeaux-chateau-talbot-and-connetable-talbot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2012 Bordeaux - Ch\u00e2teau Talbot and Conn\u00e9table Talbot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2012 Bordeaux - Ch\u00e2teau Talbot and Conn\u00e9table Talbot All has now gone a bit quiet as Bordeaux prepares for one of those funny weeks in May when there are\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/2012-bordeaux-chateau-talbot-and-connetable-talbot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lea &amp; 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