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2024 Bordeaux Vintage Report
Weather statistics tell an interesting story about climate and grape growing. This year’s weather statistics show clearly how this year’s unusual weather patterns shaped the quantity and quality of the 2024 Bordeaux wine production. The relationship between weather conditions and wine quality is a key focus, as each season’s behavior leaves a lasting impact on grape growth and, ultimately, the character of the wine.
Exceptional Bordeaux Primeurs 2023
The wines included on our list of exceptional wines are divided equally among Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot dominance and Left Bank and Right Bank production. We would recommend reading through all the tasting notes available to you on the 2023 vintage and make any decisions based on that research. Quality, as well as inferiority, were spread evenly throughout the vineyards of Bordeaux in 2023.
Exceptional Wines Bordeaux Primeurs 2023
We tasted almost the same number of wines that we tasted last year, and the average score is approximately the same. So, neither of the variables, quantity of wines tasted and average score, impacted the results from the 2023 vintage. The reason there are so many more Exceptional Wines is that the 2023 vintage is significantly better than the 2022. The best wines in 2023 are better, achieved higher scores, than the wines in 2022, and there are more wines that achieved an exceptional level of quality.
Bordeaux Primeurs Vintage 2023
The 2023 Bordeaux vintage will be successful, with good to exceptional quality attained in all regions. As usual, it was a difficult vintage.
2 Days Adventure for Wine Lovers, still wines and sparkling
Terre de Vins Bordeaux Tasting has been one of my favorite annual events during the last decade. Every December, as a Maitre de Cave blogger, I reserve the weekend to make certain I can experience Bordeaux during the holiday season and two days of exciting wine and spirit tasting.
Following is a list of my favorite wines at the Tasting and their Ratings:
Exceptional Bordeaux Primeurs 2022
Maître de Cave presents our list of Exceptional Wines from the April 2023 Primeur Tastings in Bordeaux during the last week of April. The list of Exceptional Wines from the 2022 vintage is significantly larger than the 2021 vintage. The reason there are more Exceptional Wines, and generally higher, overall ratings, is because the vintage is significantly better.
2020 Bordeaux Vintage by Maitredecave
Our overall impression of the 2020 vintage during Primeurs was that the 2020 vintage was a good vintage with many exceptional wines among both the finest Châteaux and among those less-well-known Châteaux in the less well-known Bordeaux Appellations.
Bordeaux Tasting with Terre de Vins 2022
Bordeaux Tasting 2022, the 11th edition by Terre de Vins Once again on Saturday and Sunday the 10th and 11th of December, Terre de Vins assembled a broad and exemplary...
Grape Harvest 2022 – California
Overall, the growing season of 2022 has had very few heat waves and none of more than three or four days. My main concerns with the Godello this year was the smaller number of clusters per shoot, as it relates to my goals to achieve a certain number of gallons to fill a wonderful Austrian oak cask. It was specifically to age to Godello in the methods I witnessed in Valdeorras Spain.