{"id":7320,"date":"2013-05-14T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7320"},"modified":"2013-05-24T22:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T22:26:27","slug":"2012-bordeaux-pichon-lalande-leoville-barton-beauregard-marquis-de-terme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/2012-bordeaux-pichon-lalande-leoville-barton-beauregard-marquis-de-terme\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Bordeaux &#8211; Pichon Lalande, Leoville Barton, Beauregard, Marquis de Terme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>2012 Bordeaux &#8211; Pichon Lalande, Leoville Barton, Beauregard, Marquis de Terme<\/h3>\n<p>The tasting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-PICHON-LALANDE-2eme-Cru-Classe-Pauillac-18593-00.html?category=261\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pichon Lalande<\/strong> <\/a>was a cheering experience this year, bringing to mind the wines of the eighties which never missed here. Silky and &#8216;feminine&#8217; in the inimitable Pichon style, it has depth and length\u00a0 &#8211; a real core too.\u00a0New director Nicolas Glumineau reinforced this impression &#8220;Many properties are looking for more and more Cabernet, but for us there are great &#8216;feminine&#8217; Merlots, which are an important part of Pichon Lalande. We have great terroirs for great Merlot.&#8221; This a lovely wine, and since it is offered below the price of any other vintage on the market, represents a true en primeur buy. Welcome back. The second wine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-RESERVE-DE-LA-COMTESSE-Pauillac-18663-00.html?category=261\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>R\u00e9serve de la Comtesse<\/strong> <\/a>also deserves a mention as a relative bargain for drinkers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Nicolas-Glumineau-at-Chateau-Pichon-Lalande.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7330\" title=\"Nicolas Glumineau at Chateau Pichon Lalande\" alt=\"Nicolas Glumineau at Chateau Pichon Lalande\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Nicolas-Glumineau-at-Chateau-Pichon-Lalande.png\" width=\"495\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicolas Glumineau at Chateau Pichon Lalande<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The other big release of the morning is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-LEOVILLE-BARTON-2eme-Cru-Classe-Saint-Julien-18525-00.html?category=261\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>L\u00e9oville Barton<\/strong><\/a>. This is a good wine at a sensible price in terms of the quality of the wine and for a Saint Julien second growth. Even if it is perhaps less of a pressing en primeur buy than this Chateau has been in the past, this will undoubtedly provide much pleasure when pulled from the cellar in ten to twenty-five years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Bargain hunters should look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-BEAUREGARD-Pomerol-Chateau-Beauregard-18611-00.html?category=261\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beauregard<\/strong> <\/a>in Pomerol, which made a very good 2012 which Robert Parker has called a &#8216;sleeper of the vintage&#8217; (see the <strong><a title=\"what on earth is a 'sleeper of the vintage'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/2012-bordeaux-the-market-captain-bobs-jargon-and-neil-martins-diatribe\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a><\/strong> on this expression). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-L-ARROSEE-Grand-Cru-Classe-Saint-Emilion-18524-00.html?category=261\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>l&#8217;Arros\u00e9e<\/strong><\/a>, which is an attractive Saint Emilion from a very good terroir at a very sensible price, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-FAUGERES-Grand-Cru-Saint-Emilion-18545-00.html?category=261\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Faugeres<\/strong><\/a> too\u00a0offers solid\u00a0value in a quite modern style.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2012-CHATEAU-MARQUIS-DE-TERME-4eme-Cru-Classe-Margaux-18668-00.html?category=261\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marquis de Terme<\/strong> <\/a>is a solidly constructed lower-end Margaux Cru Class\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 Bordeaux &#8211; Pichon Lalande, Leoville Barton, Beauregard, Marquis de Terme The tasting at Pichon Lalande was a cheering experience this year, bringing to mind the wines of the eighties which never missed here. Silky and &#8216;feminine&#8217; in the inimitable Pichon style, it has depth and length\u00a0 &#8211; a real core too.\u00a0New director Nicolas Glumineau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,80,315],"tags":[298,338,337],"class_list":["post-7320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-bordeaux-primeurs","category-pauillac","tag-bordeaux2012","tag-leoville-barton","tag-pichon-lalande"],"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 - Pichon Lalande, Leoville Barton, Beauregard, Marquis de Terme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2012 Bordeaux - Pichon Lalande, Leoville Barton, Beauregard, Marquis de Terme The tasting at Pichon Lalande was a cheering experience this year, bringing\" \/>\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\/05\/2012-bordeaux-pichon-lalande-leoville-barton-beauregard-marquis-de-terme\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2012 Bordeaux - Pichon Lalande, Leoville Barton, Beauregard, Marquis de Terme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2012 Bordeaux - Pichon Lalande, Leoville Barton, Beauregard, Marquis de Terme The tasting at Pichon Lalande was a cheering experience this year, bringing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/2012-bordeaux-pichon-lalande-leoville-barton-beauregard-marquis-de-terme\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lea &amp; 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