Wednesday 17 April 2013

Top of the pops time

Posted by Tom Jenkins, Bordeaux Buyer

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