2012 St. Julien is a mixed vintage. There are some fine, medium bodied, classically styled 2012 St Julien wines, along with others displaying dry tannins and over extraction.
At their best, 2012 Haut Medoc will provide quite charming Bordeaux wine that will deliver pleasure on release. Other estates that over extracted and used too much oak produced wines with drying tannins that are never going to be a lot of fun to taste.
There is no place more exciting in Bordeaux than St. Emilion today for the wines, wine making and continuous news on the once again, in jepordy Classification of its wines.
Manfred Krankl on Grenache “Grenache has a mouth-coating, all enveloping, long palate presence. The nose and the palate are in synch delivering a cascade of pleasure. Grenache doesn’t just wink at you, it delivers the goods!”
1994 California Cabernet Sauvignon are at their best, sublime. Many of these wines at 20 years of age are drinking in the sweet spot today proving that modern California do age!
2013 St Julien wines are clearly from the most consistent appellation for the vintage with their fresh, approachable style and ease of drinkability.
2013 St. Emilion is not big, bold, concentrated, opulent and bursting at the seams with ripe, ostentatious fruits like you would find in 2009 or 2010. 2013 St. Emilion wines are at their best are quiet, bright, cherry filled and refined in their early drinking character.