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  • Country ranking ?

    658
  • Producer ranking ?

    21
  • Decanting time

    5h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    venison with Red Wine Sauce

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Le Pin picks NFC tags for authentication

Prestigious Bordeaux winery Château Le Pin, which produces some of the most expensive wines in the world, has partnered with NFC object identification specialist Selinko to attach NFC tags to wine bottles so users can authenticate the vintage with the tap of their phone.

The NFC tags are located behind the label on the winery’s Vintage 2010 range, with bottles selling at €2,000 to €2,500 each. Use...

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The Story

Château Le Pin, or simply Le Pin, is an unclassed Bordeaux wine from the appellation Pomerol. There has never been an official classification of Pomerol. Even so, Chateau Le Pin commands prices that put it at levels equal to the best wines of Bordeaux. The unusually small estate is located on the Right Bank of France’s Gironde estuary, and its wine is periodically one of the world's most expensive red wines. Le Pin was the first of the "garage...

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Vintage 2012

The 2012 Bordeaux vintage report.

The 2012 Bordeaux vintage is a year for vineyard management and workers. Call it a winemakers vintage, or change your tune and call it vineyard managers vintage. Either descriptor works perfectly. Wineries with the financial capacity to take the necessary measures in the vineyards during the season, coupled with the willingness to severely downgrade unripe grapes, will produce the best wines. Even then, it ...

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Tasting note

color

Deep and Purple

ending

Long, Extensive and Pure

flavors

Leather, Mineral, Blackberry, Blackcurrant, Raspberry and Vanilla

nose

Intense, Generous, Pure and Complex

recommend

Yes

taste

Balanced, Well-Integrated, Complex, Youthful, Medium-bodied, Harmonious, Rich, Vigor and Silky tannins

Verdict

Well made and Exotic

Written Notes

A gorgeous nose of violets, jasmine, sweet spices and cedar. Amazing generosity on the palate without any heaviness and velvety, plush texture. Great intensity and freshness with impressive depth. Seamless from start to finish with linger flavours. 32 hl/ha and about 10% less production than 2011. This is a gorgeous wine that stands out in this challenging vintage.

95 points

  • 95p

The 2012 Le Pin exhibits a surprisingly opaque purple color, moderately high tannin, deep mocha and jammy berry characteristics, unexpected headiness, an alcoholic blast and lots of glycerin and fruit. This beauty should come into its own in 4-5 years, and last for 15 or more.

This 100% Merlot cuvee is a fresher, lighter-styled effort than this estate's blockbuster 2009 and 2010, but it is surprisingly intense with plenty of weight, clout and class. Yields were a tiny 30 hectoliters per hectare (due to poor flowering and excessive drought), and the wine was produced from fruit harvested between October 2 and 5.

  • 94p

Ruby. Vanilla, blueberries, leather and anise, layered nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, velvety texture, elegant and fruity yet refined, long. 94-96

  • 95p
Good looking normal size bottle and has bottom neck level. Colour is ruby red, youthful and deep . On the nose it is wide, intense, ripe, seductive and generous. The taste is harmonious, rich, refined, with silky tannins, full-bodied, with well-integrated, complex and balanced structure. On the palate it is layered and has dried-fruit, herbs, vanilla, truffles, blackberry, leather, plum, mineral and toasty flavours. The finish is long, extensive, flavorful and pure. This wine is sophisticated, fine and excellent. I paid around 1k-3k€ a bottle. Perfectly stored bottles are still very worthy and will last well for another 20-30 years and decant at least 2h before tasting. I do recommend.
- (Tasting note created by Tb's AI)
  • 98p
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Origin

Pomerol, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Above Average

Value For Money

Satisfactory

Investment potential

Below Average

Fake factory

None

Glass time

3h

Drinking temperature

16
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