Saint-Émilion · vintage 2012
Clos Fourtet 2012
Ageing potential20+ years
Why this vintage
- The 2012 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionMerlots brought in just before the rain made for a vintage markedly more successful than on the Left Bank.
- Ageing potential20+ years
- Limited production55 000 bottles of this vintage.
The 2012 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 90/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Merlots brought in just before the rain made for a vintage markedly more successful than on the Left Bank.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Blend of the 2012 vintage
- 86 % Merlot
- 10 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 4 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2012 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with merlot, cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2012 sheet
- 14 % vol.Alcohol
- 32 hl/haYield
- 25 yrsVine age
- 55,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Once the harvest is over, work continues in the cellar, fermentations are active and the aromas are bursting forth. The work of a cellar master requires great mastery over the production of wine because the temperature of the must and the methods of extracting color, tannins and aromas require great attention.
Ageing
16 to 18 months in oak barrels (65% new)
Terroir
Clos Fourtet has a naturally drained terroir of clay-limestone soil with a shallow topsoil. The plantings are 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc. The vines, with an average age of 25 years, are worked in a traditional and considered manner: use of organic and mineral fertilisers, debudding, protection of the embryonic bunches and of the vine stocks against disease, mites and fungi, leaf removal, and green harvesting to optimise concentration.
An offer on Clos Fourtet 2012
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Texts and documents 2012
The texts below copy in one click for your product sheets, catalogues and social channels. The printable sheet condenses the whole page onto a single A4 page.
Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.