2024 Pauillac offers a bevy of charming, elegant, fresh wines that will not only provide pleasure in their youth, but age for 2-3 decades as well. And with luck, several of the wines will be priced appropriately making them affordable.
2024 Bordeaux was a difficult year with a myriad of challenges in St.. Estephe. But, the estates with the terroir, and abilities to be reactive in the vineyards produced some very nice, early drinking wines.
2024 Bordeaux is the most challenging vintage in over a decade. Yet, some estates were able to produce a modern interpretation of classic Bordeaux, lower in alcohol, with more freshness, leaning to the red fruit side of the style range offering early-drinking, charming wines.
2024 St. Julien proved to be perhaps the most consistent appellation of the vintage. At their best, the wines offer early drinkability, charm, freshness, and purity, with lower levels of alcohol as well.
2024 Margaux offered several surprises with a few estate’s producing wines well above what you would expect from the vintage.
2024 Pessac Leognan wines have a lot of potential. Better for the white wines, but with some very good red wines as well that should deliver pleasure young, but, have the ability to age as well.
Haut Medoc is often where you find the best values for Cabernet Sauvignon based from the Left Bank. But, with 2024, it was difficult for many estates to produce strong wines. Still, if you know were to look, there are a few values worth discovering.