denis patoux vintage 2012Denis Patoux Vintage 2012 Year 2012 was a excellent year for Champagne. The relatively warm winter moved into a extremely wet spring and both frost and a particularly vicious hailstorm almost destroyed the champagne fields. Flowering was, unsurprisingly, uneven and the tough conditions also opened the vines up to disease. However, excellent conditions in August spun the vintage around. August brought steady heat with temperatures rising so high that