Côte d'Or 2024 – after the misery, an overview

Matthew Hayes

Friday 19 December 2025 • 1 min read

After extensive tasting and talking to producers up and down Burgundy’s Côte d’Or, Matthew surveys the vintage. Above, the tellingly empty cellars at Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair in Vosne-Romanée.

To sum it up in one phrase, the 2024s are absolutely all over the shop.

One of the first answers that I received in mid October when requesting tasting appointments set the tone. From the newly minted and Bouygues-family-financed Domaine Henri Rebourseau in Gevrey-Chambertin, I received the morose reply that, unfortunately, they would not be able to see me as they had not produced any wine.

All that investment and effort...

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