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Gold is rising, but wine is not. With the merger (more details here) and the en primeur tastings being in the first week of Easter, and the 2024 vintage being a relatively poor one (late is never great), it is the first year since COVID that I have not been to Bordeaux to taste en primeur.
Over the past week, I have spoken to those I trust and those I do not. The former talk of 2013, chaptalisation and over extraction, the latter of 2014 and OK wines.
Half of me says in commercial terms that the most profitable vintages are the weaker ones, as in ten years, who remembers? The cheapest vintage on the market! A rising tide lifts all boats. However, this will be true if the wines are to be released at those prices.
So we will not be doing our shilling this year due to the time pressures on the team looking after old and new customers.
However, as the wines are released, we will list them here, with a recommendation based on the above, and if you would like to buy, please just email us enprimeur@fraziers.co.uk . And for the same reasons gold is rising, this vintage won't be selling out.
| Release | Commnent | Recommendation |
| Pontet Canet 2024 6 x 75cl £360 | Better past vintages are available at a lower price | pass |
| Branaire Ducru 2024 6 x 75cl £159 | Jane Anson "...a little short on the finish... " | pass |
| Montrose 2024 6 x 75cl £507 | Top Wine of the Vintage | A buy! |
| Cissac Haut Medoc 2024 6 x 75cl £50 | Lowest yeild ever for the estate and acutally stands up well. Very Good Value | Buy |
| Leoville Barton 2024 6 x 75cl £288 | 92pts WA | Limited Stock - pass |
| Angludet 2024 6 x 75cl £120 | Sent a sample and this wine is quite charming, and will make good early drinking | pass |
| Kirwan 2024 6 x 75cl £150 | 92-94 Niel Martin | worthy if a birth year |
Happy Drinking
William Frazier
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