![]() ![]() These two grape varietals also produced characterful wines on the coastal regions of South Africa this year.Ces vins ont été dégustés pour le rapport de liste alphabétique du Merlot de Californie dans le 30 novembre 2015, problème de Spectateur du vin magazine.Īlexander Valley Vineyards Merlot Alexander Valley 2012īarnett Merlot Spring Mountain District 2012īeaulieu Vineyard Merlot Napa Valley Carneros Maestro Collection 2012īehrens Family Front Man Napa Valley 2012īeringer Merlot Howell Mountain Bancroft Ranch Vineyard 2012 Similar claims are being made across the Chilean wine regions, where Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon had an especially good year. Also enjoying a fantastic year for weather were wineries across Argentina and Chile, with the Mendoza region claiming that 2012 will be one of their best vintages of the past decade. The southern hemisphere has seen ideal climatic conditions in most of the key wine producing countries, and Australia and New Zealand particularly had a superb year, in particular with the Bordeaux varietal grapes that grow there and which love the humidity these countries received plenty of. French wineries are claiming, though, that this could well turn out to be advantageous, as the slow ripening will allow the resulting wines to express more flavour and features of the terroir they are grown in. However, 2012 has been something of a late year for France, due to unpredictable weather throughout the summer, and the grapes were ripening considerably later than they did in 2011 (which was, admittedly, an exceptionally early year). While it may be a little too early to speak of the wines being made in the northern hemisphere, European and North American wineries have already begun reporting that their harvesting season has been generally very good, and are predicting to continue with the kind of successes they saw in 2011. 2012 has, so far been a positive year for wineries around the world. ![]()
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