2012 Chardonnay Wine

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2012 L'Etoile Cuvée Spéciale is like a mini Vin Jaune, a riper year than 2013, with more volume in the palate and a stronger effect of the aging under the veil of yeasts. It aged for no less than four years under the...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2012 Chardonnay Isobel (980 cases) comes from 31-year-old vines planted in the Charles Heintz Vineyard, and spent 13 months in 39% new oak. It offers classic notes of tangerine oil, apple blossoms, caramelized citrus...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: (89 - 92) The 2012 Meursault 1er Cru Le Purosot Dessus comes from 80-year-old vines that produced small berries and underwent a slow malo-lactic fermentation (consequently my sample had not been racked). It was the only...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: 97+ Raphel Coche told me that the 2012 Corton Charlemagne was the only vineyard that escaped hail damage this year. It has a very succinct nose, not predisposed to go out and grab you by the lapels. The aromatics unfurl...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2012 tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Montrachet Grand Cru from Dominique Lafon is much more reduced on the nose compared to Marquis de Laguiche: waxier in style, less mineral-driven, sporting...

Burghound, 94 points: There is a background application of wood that frames the riper and borderline exotic yellow orchard fruit nose that is intensely spicy. In the same fashion as the Bougros this is a big and overtly muscular wine though...

Vinous, 91 points: Green-tinged yellow. Fresh lemon and orange zest on the nose, with hints of white flowers and chalky minerals gaining strength with air. Sappy citrus fruit and melon flavors are complemented by musky iodine and floral...