‘It’s a modest vintage but there was the potential to make something decent’, says Thomas Duroux, general manager of Château Palmer. If you had the terroir, means and workforce, that may have been the case but the wine gods did not look kindly on Bordeaux in 2024. Incessant rain through the winter and...
Bordeaux 2024 – overview
Friday 25 April 2025
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Having tasted cask samples of the wines, our man in Bordeaux reflects on this challenging vintage. Come back next week for James's wine reviews and scores. It was a gloomy harvest day in Pauillac on 1 October 2024 when Gavin Quinney of Château Bauduc took the picture above.
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