Jun 12, 2024 · Bordeaux’s futures campaign for the 2023 vintage has begun. Will the wines (and their prices) be tempting enough to attract consumers? In coming weeks, Wine Spectator will report and analyze the latest releases from Bordeaux, compare them to past vintages available now and see how sincere the châteaus are in their plans to woo back wine ...

Nov 18, 2024 · It wasn't an easy vintage in Bordeaux, but it's not necessarily the vineyard issues that are causing the most problems. Read the latest wine news & features on wine-searcher

3 days ago · The critic awarded a perfect 100-point score to five wines, Vieux Château Certan, La Mission Haut-Brion, Montrose, Les Carmes Haut-Brion and Beau-Séjour Bécot. A further six wines received 99 points. While Galloni states that there are ‘fabulous 2022s to be found in every region in Bordeaux’, seven of his top ten hailed from the Right Bank.

Jan 25, 2025 · According to French wine news website Vitisphere, the Médoc estate had been pursuing Bordeaux-based liquidators Philae for €161,000 ($167,700, or the equivalent of around 3800 bottles). Lawyers for Lynch-Moussas said this was the amount sold to local wine merchant firm Compagnie des Vins d’Aquitaine (CVA) back in September 2020.

Apr 25, 2024 · The new vintage in Bordeaux is a delightful one, with bright, charming fruit and marked freshness. Here, we examine the year that was, and how these precise, energetic wines came to be. In Bordeaux, it’s a recurring curse to be the vintage that follows a …

This year, Bordeaux looks set to produce 3.89 million hectolitres of wine, according to the latest official figures, 16% lower than the five-year average, with AOC Bordeaux red looking to be below 900,000hl, a historic low.

This summer will see the biggest change to Bordeaux's wine landscape since phylloxera, with hybrid grapes getting the green light. Read the latest wine news & features on wine-searcher

Across Bordeaux, the challenging harvest of 2024 is drawing to a close – these secateurs in the above photo at Château Dauzac were used to bring in the last grapes on Friday October 11, the same day at Phélan Ségur in St Estèphe, Giscours in Margaux, and many other key estates that had managed to hold on through the rains of late ...

Nov 1, 2024 · The little world of the Bordeaux wine trade, setting aside the parlous state of France’s domestic economy, has yet to grasp just how much its wines have fallen out of favor—what’s known as “Bordeaux bashing.”

Apr 15, 2024 · As the Bordeaux 2023 en primeur tastings get underway, our Bordeaux correspondent Colin Hay looks at the meteorological conditions that have helped to forge an uneven vintage in the first of a...