2012

Det ville vi købe – og hvorfor

A vintage Champagne 2012 makes a festive fourteenth-birthday bottle and is drinking well now. Burgundy 2012 is scarce because the crop was tiny, so expect to pay for it; Pomerol or Saint-Émilion 2012 gives good Bordeaux at a fair price. As always with a year of small crops, provenance matters more than the label - ask where it has been.

2012 i verden

London hosted the Olympic Games in the summer. In August the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, and in October Felix Baumgartner stepped out of a capsule twenty-four miles up and fell to Earth faster than sound.

De bedste valg fra 2012

• Vintage Champagne 2012 - an excellent year
• Red Burgundy 2012 - a small crop, concentrated wines
• Right Bank Bordeaux 2012 - the better side that year
• Northern Rhône 2012 - very good Syrah

Sådan vurderer vi en flaske

Fyldningsniveau, etiket, kapsel og prop – og derefter proveniens. Hver flaske bliver tjekket i hånden af folk, der har håndteret tusindvis af gamle flasker, og vi skriver fejlene ned lige så vel som de gode nyheder. Hvad fyldningsniveauerne betyder · Sådan vælger du en vin fra fødselsåret