Bordeaux 2012 at Southwold – the left bank

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We started off this account of my recent blind tasting of nearly 250 Bordeaux 2012s with the whites, continued with the right-bank reds, and we finish with the left-bank reds, 121 of them described below. See also this overview.

Tasting notes are listed alphabetically by producer within their appellation or group of appellations, which are ordered thus: 

Médoc, Haut-Médoc, Moulis and Listrac
St-Estèphe
Pauillac
St-Julien
Margaux
Pessac-Léognan

The left-bank red that seemed to me to show particularly well in Southwold was Ch Margaux, whose beautiful neo-classical château, now supplemented by a new chai designed by...