2012 Bouchard Père et Fils Chambertin-Clos de Bèze

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 94.1 points

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  8/24/2022 - Screwcaps Likes this wine:

  For our 10th wedding anniversary.
  
  No decant, poured gently off its sediment like in Burgundy.
  
  Shy on opening with hints of leather and dried leaves. Soft red fruits, it quickly turns on it's heels with darker fruits and herbal notes.
  
  Orange peel and black fruits come through the middle and finish with time open, then the lean and focussed palate hits bitter green pepper, char, graphite and black olive and black tea tannins.
  
  The length is superb for what is a light to medium bodied wine.
  
  Such persistence for a lighter year in these parts, the power is in the back third.
  
  Young, but approachable now if you are not affraid of tannin.
  
  Outstanding bordering on exceptional. Such a joy to drink through a bottle as special as this with my favourite person.
  
  Thank you R. X
  
  Day 2
  A precious smidge left in a glass overnight.
  Light red, coming in from the rim with a touch of brick.
  
  It's filled out, it's become more sappy, rounded, and there's a lick of strawberry jam and toffee like sweetness lining the palate with orange marmalade through the finish.
  
  The bitter, stemmy and peppery tannins still could do with some more years in the bottle to soften.
  
  It's mid life, showing both it's youth and where it will go.
  
  Outstanding, now to 2032. No tannin sediment, but acid crystals at the bottom of the last pour.

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  7/20/2021 - barolo1971 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Opened last night and it was tight out of the bottle. Decided to put hold off a day. Night two: this is blossoming and opening to a lively mid palate. Clean, elegant and long finish. Silky tannins. Delicious.

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  8/4/2020 - watcheslover wrote: 97 Points

  Top quality, not far from the fabulous Clos de Beze 2012 of Faiveley

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  1/5/2020 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Incredible flavours, the best 2012 just after Faiveley

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  12/25/2017 - JJYoyo Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Red fruit, soil, earth and allspice on both nose and palate. Good length. A little pepper in the back. Flavors a little murky and undefined. Very firm backbone of acidity and tannin. Built to last but right now a little clumsy for a GC. Would leave it alone for a while.

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