Best Pomerol 2024 wines tasted en primeur
In general, Pomerol was a success in 2024 however producers suffered with mildew, poor flowering and fruit set leading to the lowest average yield of all the major Bordeaux appellations.
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Pomerol 2024: Tiny yields but some exceptional wines
Average yield: 28.4hl/ha
Variance from 2023: -59.1% (45.2hl/ha)
Scroll down to see tasting notes and scores for the top wines from Pomerol 2024
Vintage overview
Praise for the wines can only go some way to compensate Pomerol producers for their tiny yields in 2024, with few exceeding 30hl/ha and the average being only 28.4% – almost a 60% decrease from last year.
There were fewer wines available to taste – Hosanna, La Grange à Pomerol and La Grave à Pomerol were missing giving an indication as to the troubles faced throughout the year.
Indeed mildew was a problem as was botrytis and many producers picked ahead of the September rain to avoid disease and dilution.
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These factors added to the general cool vintage have produced a set of Pomerol wine with less typical sexiness and plushness than usual, they’re not opulent or voluptuous but the best are still packed full of flavour with aromatic intensity and lovely juicy, charming profiles.
Favourite wines
Indeed Pomerol has one of my wine’s of the vintage; L’Eglise Clinet made by the talented Noëmie Durantou (pictured, above) and Olivier Gautrat which was just exceptional and showed none of the difficulties in the glass. If you can get your hands on these bottles please do!
‘It was a tough game, but a great result in the end,’ Durantou said.
Château Lafleur also shone with a beautiful 2024 and bucked the trend with high yields of 40hl/ha. Winemaker Omri Ram said the team, ‘didn’t miss a spraying window’.
‘We didn’t miss one hour, we sprayed on bank holidays, weekends and three times at night’, he said adding that they ‘also worked the canopies’ and maintained the cover crops to ‘manage the water and stabilise the soils’.
For the team at Clos du Clocher it was all about ‘endurance’. They produced a lovely 2024, slightly more lean in profile compared to previous years but very enjoyable nonetheless.
Olivier Berrouet at Petrus said it was the first time in 20 years that they battled rain and botrytis during the harvest.
‘The goal was to harvest ripe,’ he said, adding that because the grapes were more damaged than usual and more sensitive to oxygen they reduced the number of rackings and carried them out under nitrogen.
The 2024 Petrus is amazingly aromatic, focused and fresh with plenty of nuance. Not as charming as usual but clean, linear and precise.
I thought Château Fayat, under the management of Gwen Lucas, was a highlight and enjoyed Petit Village too.
Standouts
- Château L’Eglise Clinet
- Château Lafleur
Highlights
- Petrus
- Château Trotanoy
- Château Vieux Château Certan
- Château La Conseillante
- Guillot-Clauzel
- Château Petit Village
- Château Clinet
- Château Clos de la Vieille Eglise
- Château Latour à Pomerol
Value
- Château Clos du Clocher
- Château Fayat
- Château La Petite Eglise
- Château Bonalgue
- Château La Cabanne
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