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Saturday 22 December 2012

Top 50 wines tasted in 2012

Its time for the inevitable. A look back on what the year of 2012 brought to the table. Some wines have been tasted several times this year, some have been tasted earlier, and some for the first time. When I looked through the thousands of tasting notes, it's pretty clear that I'm spoiled rotten. And teher are a staggering amount of excellent wines that are not even here. Some wines are only juice and will outlast me, others at peak or just off it. It's a lot of French wines, but that is also what I taste by far the most of. These are listed as they are now, and some will undoubtedly change place if retasted in the years to come. Every year I say its impossible to top the previous, but this list? I think that would be difficult.....

Top ten wines tasted 2012

1961 Château Ausone (Released from the château 2007)

2001 Château d’Yquem

1832 Barbeito Terrantez

1989 Château Haut-Brion

1900 D’Oliveiras Malvazia

2009 Château Margaux

2009 Château Latour

2007 DRC Romanée-Conti

2004 Coche-Dury Corton-Charlemagne

2007 DRC Montrachet

And the next fourty

1970 Château Latour

1986 Château Lafite Rothschild

2009 Château Petrus

2009 Château Lafite Rothschild 99

1927 Cockburn’s Vintage Port

1967 Château Suduiraut

2005 Dominum Tokaji Essencia

1949 Château Cheval Blanc

1999 Armand Rousseau Chambertin

1928 Château Ausone 95

2008 Armand Rousseau Chambertin

1990 Château Cheval Blanc

2004 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier-Montrachet

2005 Armand Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Beze

1989 Château Montrose

2008 Lamy-Pillot Le Montrachet

2009 DRC Romanée-Conti

1986 Château Léoville Las Cases

1986 Château Margaux

1945 Château Cheval Blanc

1982 Château Haut-Brion

1986 Château Haut-Brion

2002 DRC La Tâche

1945 Château Pontet-Canet

2004 Domaine Leflaive Bienvenues- Bâtard- Montrachet

1975 Château Latour 97-98

1998 Armand Rousseau Chambertin

1970 Château Lafite Rothschild

1964 Château Latour

1983 Château Trotanoy

1990 Château Montrose

1985 Sassicaia

1970 Château Léoville Las Cases

1998 Biondi Santi Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

2003 Château Mouton Rothschild

2004 DRC La Tâche

1995 Château Mouton Rothschild

1963 Fonseca’s Vintage Port

1988 Krug

1945 Clos Fourtet

1976 Château d-Yquem

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"-To me wine is one of the greatest and sometimes worst of the world’s great pleasures. When you get that one bottle, or even that one sip of a truly great wine, you're just lost. Wine can be almost everything, great pleasure, great fun, deeply tragic, complex, easy, boring, fresh, fantastic, but maybe the greatest of it all, floating history. Imagine drinking your birth year wine, you drink you're own age, and in a way your own life. Memories comes rushing back... Or what about drinking a 1945? After the war was over and they were able to make some of the most legendary wines of all time".

Christer has over 23 years of experience in wine, took WSET Level 2 in 2003, WSET Level 3 in 2005 and finished WSET Level 4 Diploma in 2011. Christer has worked for the Norwegian Vinmonopolet and for wine importers as product manager and in sales before becoming a wine critic. Christer has for years been an international wine judge. He tastes about 7500-8000 wines a year and is approaching 90.000 wines tasted, from all over the world. His web site BMyBordeaux is one of the worlds largest collections of tasting notes on Bordeaux. He also runs BMyBourgogne and BMyWine. Christer has enjoyed the privilege of membership in the following honours:

-Commandeur de Bordeaux in 2011

-Hospitalier d’Honneur de Hospitaliers de Pomerol in 2014

-Gentilhomme d’Honneur du Duché de Fronsac in 2015

-Prud’homme de la Jurade de Saint-Emilion in 2015

-Comandeur d'Honneur de Médoc ou des Graves, de Sauternes ou Barsac de l'Ordre du Bontemps in 2017

-Member of Academie du Vin de Bordeaux, 2019

All views are his personal ones. He lives in Norway, and is a freelance wine writer and a wine educator and after several requests write all his TN’s in English. Please pardon errors in a foreign language. Christer is one of the most experienced tasters of his generation.

Scores and ratings, what do they mean?

Wines are scored for quality and quality only. For the bottle or sample that is tasted there and then, as that one is. Not peer group. Peer group tastings in my opinion make wines from lesser grapes or areas seem to be better than they actually are as the benchmark is lower, and most peer group tasters tend not to rate a wine perfectly within the group either, which makes it all a bit strange. I can't remember ever to have seen a rosé wine getting a perfect score as an example. Then it's not a true peer group taster in my opinion. Peer group tasting also make the truly great wines seem less great as something else regularly get similar scores even if the quality of the two is miles apart.

96-100 Great wine of spellbinding beauty and resonance, leaving the drinker with a sense of wonder

90-95 Outstanding wine of great beauty and articulacy

86-89 Very good wine with some outstanding features

83-85 Good wwine with no outstanding features

80-82Enjoyable but simple and straightforward

75-80 Sound but dull or boring wine with no character or appeal

Wines marked below this level will not be written about on this blogg, and should it happen, it won't be impressive anyway.

Some wines are more for competitions and to impress certain wine writers, so here is my view on a wines drinkability. if you are a human.

***** The bottle will empty before you know it
**** The bottle will empty
*** The bottle is likely to be emptied, especially with food
** Will probably not empty
* Will only be emptied if everyone is allready drunk or if someone have to few tastebuds.

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