Best value Bordeaux 2024 wines tasted en primeur
A round-up of good-quality bottles that should offer value and are worth seeking out in this tricky vintage.
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Full vintage analysis & top-scoring wines | How the weather conditions shaped the vintage | The growing season month by month | Wine styles: what to expect | Market conditions and pricing strategies
Appellation analysis to come
St-Julien | St-Estèphe | Pauillac | Pessac-Léognan | St-Emilion | Margaux | Dry whites | Cru Bourgeois | Sauternes & Barsac
‘Value’ is of course relative – Château Mouton Rothschild’s 2024 release price is 25% less than last year, and the cheapest since the release of the 2014 vintage, at €252 per bottle ex-négociant. Lafite Rothschild is also the cheapest since 2014 at €288 per bottle ex-négociant. Margaux also dropped 25% from the 2023 release price with a per-bottle offer of €276 ex-négociant.
For some, the 2024 vintage will be the first ‘reasonable’ opportunity to buy a first growth, at least for the past decade. Indeed many wines usually priced at the upper end of the scale are more affordable this year given the market conditions and widespread calls to drop prices.
It’s good news for first time buyers or those who want to buy specific large formats.
And even though 2024 is not a top Bordeaux vintage there are still plenty of excellent bottles, and at the lower end, lots of wines great for opening and enjoying young.
I’ve selected a number of wines below that I think should offer ‘good value’ for their respective appellations. Most should be priced between £20 and £30 – based on 2023 prices where the 2024 one was not available.
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In general, value can be found at the cru bourgeois level and within the right bank satellites but there are gems to be found in all the major appellations.
Whites
Pessac Léognan
- Château Brown, Blanc 92 points
- Château de Rochemorin, Blanc 92 points
- Château Picque Caillou, Blanc 92 points
- Château Baret, Blanc 90 points
- Château d’Eyran, Blanc 90 points
Bordeaux Blanc
- Château Cos d’Estournel, Les Pagodes de Cos, Blanc 94 points
- Château Virginie de Valandraud, Blanc 94 points
- Château d’Aiguilhe, Blanc 92 points
- Château Fonréaud Le Cygne 92 points
Château Les Charmes-Godard, Blanc, Francs Côtes de Bordeaux 93 points
Reds
St-Estèphe
- Château Le Boscq 92 points
- Château Meyney 92 points
- Château de Pez 92 points
- Château Capbern 92 points
- Château Ormes de Pez 91 points
St Julien
- Château Gloria 93 points
- Château Beychevelle 92 points
- Château Branaire Ducru 92 points
Margaux
- Château du Tertre 92 points
- Château Siran 92 points
- Château Labégorce 92 points
Pauillac
- Château Fonbadet 93 points
- Château Pauillac 92 points
Pessac-Léognan
- Château La Garde 93 points
- Château Latour-Martillac 93 points
- Château Les Carmes Haut-Bron, C de Carmes 92 points
- Château Couhins Lurton 93 points
- Château de Fieuzal 92 points
- Château Larrivet Haut-Brion 92 points
- Château Couhins 91 points
- Château La Louvière 91 points
Cru Bourgeois
- Château Barreyres, Haut-Médoc (Cru Bourgeois) 91 points
- Château Beaumont, Haut-Médoc (Cru Bourgeois Supérieur) 91 points
- Château Beauvillage, Médoc (Cru Bourgeois) 91 points
- Château Bel Air Gloria, Haut-Médoc (Cru Bourgeois Supérieur) 91 points
- Château de la Croix, Médoc (Cru Bourgeois) 91 points
- Château Le Crock, St-Estèphe (Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel) 91 points
- Château Ramage la Batisse, Haut-Médoc (Cru Bourgeois Supérieur) 91 points
- Château Reverdi, Listrac-Médoc (Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel) 91 points
- Château Tour Saint-Fort, St-Estèphe (Cru Bourgeois) 91 points
- Château La Cardonne, Haut-Médoc (Cru Bourgeois Supérieur) 91 points
- Château de Malleret, Haut-Médoc (Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel) 91 points
St-Emilion
- Château Bellefont-Belcier 94 points
- Château Sansonnet 94 points
- Château Lassègue 94 points
- Château La Dominique 94 points
- Château de Ferrand 92 points
- Château Fonplégade 93 points
- Château Fleur Cardinale 93 points
- Château Franc Mayne 91 points
- Château Laroque 93 points
- Château Carillon d’Angélus 92 points
- Château Fombrauge 92 points
- Château Moulin St Georges 92 points
- Château Cadet Bon 92 points
Pomerol
- Château Fayat 93 points
- Château La Petite Eglise 93 points
- Château Bonalgue 92 points
- Château Château La Cabanne 91 points
Right Bank satellites
- Château La Fleur de Boüard, Lalande-de-Pomerol 92 points
- Château Clarisse, Vieilles Vignes, St-Émilion (Puisseguin-St-Émilion) 92 points
- Château Le Rey, Les Rocheuses, Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux 92 points
- Château Le Rey Les Argileuses Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux 92 points
- Château Clarisse, Cuvée Allegria, Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux 91 points
- Château Marsau, Francs Côtes de Bordeaux 91 points
- Château Puygueraud, Francs Côtes de Bordeaux 91 points
- Château La Couronne Reserve St-Émilion (Montagne-St-Émilion) 90 points
- Château de Carles, Fronsac 90 points
- Château La Chenade Lalande-de-Pomerol 90 points
- Château Les Cruzelles Lalande-de-Pomerol 91 points
- Château Roc de Bécot, St-Émilion (Puisseguin-St-Émilion) 90 points
Sauternes
- Château De Myrat 92 points
- Château Haut-Bergeron 90 points
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