Our straw poll of the 2012 vintage is in. We asked all eight members of the J&B team to rank the First Growths (and friends: Petrus,
Cheval Blanc, Ausone, Lafleur and Le Pin) in order of their preference. Ten
points for a first place and a star, nine points for a second place all the way
down to one point for tenth place. We thus get a democratically elected list of
our favourite wines.
First and Second places are taken by stars of the Right
Bank, but there are strong showings from all of the Medoc’s First Growths.
Unlike other years where there has been a stand out favourite, there were six
different ‘top wines’.
| 1 | Petrus | *** |
| 2 | Cheval Blanc | * |
| 3 | Lafite | * |
| 4 | Latour | |
| 5 | Margaux | * |
| 6 | Mouton | * |
| 7 | Le Pin | |
| 8 | Lafleur | * |
| 9 | Ausone | |
| 10 | Haut Brion |
