Bordeaux 2024 – a guide

Team JR

Wednesday 30 April 2025 • 1 min read

Everything we've published on this testing vintage in Bordeaux. Gavin Quinney's dog Pavie is pictured above, overseeing the 2024 white-wine harvest at Château Bauduc in the Entre-Deux-Mers.

The weather gods rarely smiled on Bordeaux during the 2024 growing season, even into September, when rain disrupted harvest. Selection to remove rotten bunches was critical, and selection is also essential for potential purchasers of wines from this uneven and challenging vintage. Tasting the cask samples of nearly 300 wines in Bordeaux earlier this month, James Lawther MW found some successes – especially among the whites, both sweet and dry – but also disappointments. Nobody is claiming 2024 to be the vintage of the decade.

Will the wines be priced to reflect this? Or will the Bordelais remain deaf to calls from the wine trade to slash en primeur release prices to have any chance of a successful campaign? We're delighted that, once again, Nick Martin of Wine Owners is reporting on how the wines stack up in value terms against comparable vintages in this thread on our Members' forum.

Our coverage of this vintage is listed below, split into tasting articles followed by other coverage, the most recent articles at the top.