2012 Le Pin Beausoleil
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A big, juicy wine, the 2012 Le Pin Beausoleil offers lovely immediacy and intensity. Super-ripe black cherry, herb and smoke are all pushed forward in an exuberant Merlot-based red that is best enjoyed over the next few years. A healthy dollop of 20% Cabernet Franc rounds out the blend in this delicious Bordeaux Supérieur. Julien Lavenu is the consulting winemaker.
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Robert Parker
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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Le Pin Beausoleil is consistently one of the best of the Bordeaux Superieur wines and overperforms in almost every vintage I’ve had it. The 2012 is a pretty big, rich, fleshy wine that comes across more like a Pomerol than one would expect. Big and fleshy, its ripe black cherry and blackcurrant fruit is followed by a heady wine with excellent purity, depth and richness. It is not terribly complex, but it is very satisfying and hedonistic. Drink it over the next 4-5 years. A sleeper of the vintage.