2023 Bordeaux produced a plethora of charming wines with character, style, complexity, freshness and early drinkability. Plus, a lot of the gems are selling for consumer friendly prices.
2023 St. Emilion has a lot to offer fans of the appellation. The wines are ripe, vibrant, lower in alcohol than you find in recent vintages, with a gorgeous purity of fruit. And if you prefer fresher styles of wine, they can be enjoyed with little to almost no aging!
2023 Saint Emilion has a lot to offer. Of course, all wines were not created, but the best wines offer a beautiful expression of ripe fruits with purity, and elegance, vibrancy, length, and complexity, plus you can start enjoying them on the young side if you wish!
There are several, stellar 2023 Pomerol wines with soft, elegant, lush textures paired with all the chocolate, truffles and ripe berries you need. The fruits are often bright, and fresh, with a gentle, refined charm that will provide pleasure on release, as well as age for decades.
2023 Bordeaux white wines might be a mixed bag, depending on where you look. But, if you look in the right places you find aromatically complex wines with verve, and energy to their tropical, citrus and juicy white peach character.
2023 Haut Medoc can be a mine field with so many different, and diverse arrays of soils and terroirs. While several wines have trouble achieving ripeness, there are a few estates that rose above the vintages challenges, producing quite nice, early-drinking wines of distinction.
2023 Pessac Leognan and Graves produced slightly better white Bordeaux than red wines. That happens more often than you think. That being said, there are also several truly outstanding red wines with finesse, character and charm that deserve to be tasted.