Bordeaux 2024 En Primeur

Starting in Saint Estèphe on day one and finishing in the Graves four days later, we tasted over two hundred samples of what turns out to have been a pleasing array of very drinkable, and fairly diverse wines.

On the Sunday evening at the Pessac presentation in the middle of Bordeaux, Olivier Bernard from Domaine de Chevalier set the tone by telling us it was without doubt, a five star white wine vintage. While he has produced some very decent red wines, this is a much more difficult vintage for reds than whites and, if growers made one, their white was pushed in front of the red line-up, which sums up the feeling across the whole of Bordeaux this year very nicely!

There are some lovely, well-crafted clarets for you, but they are light weight in general and for drinking early. Many fall into the simply “Ok” box. However, if prices come down, and it appears nailed on that they will, then you could pick up a bottle of really well made red from a top château at a fraction of the price of the recent star vintages over the last decade.