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Burgundy 2024 – The Winehog View

Here you find all the available information’s about the 2024 vintage in Burgundy. This page will be updated as soon as new articles are published.

Harvest Report 2024 – latest news

Harvest Report 2024 – main articles

  • New season … vintage 2024 May 5, 2025
    May is the change of season at Winehog as I start of with looking at the 2024 vintage. The wines are now at a stage where at least some of them can be evaluated … yes I know it is early … but just remember that quite many wines are bottled during the fall … ...
  • 2024 … it’s a wrap September 25, 2024
    Let’s face it the 2024 vintage did not fall out like we hoped for!! Words like catastrophe and disaster are being used quite frequently about a vintage that size-wise perhaps is the worst Burgundy has experienced. Now we can hope for the wines to surprise us … to thrill us … to joy us. The big negative There ...
  • Burgundy 2024 – fermenting – Prices and Consequences September 23, 2024
    The harvest is almost over except for a few late starters and bloomers. A very difficult harvest with yields well or even way below the normal … “a disaster,” as several growers have described it. I do not dwell on the statistics. Still, production and recent talks with producers like Louis-Michel Liger-Belair and Étienne Grivot indicate ...
  • Burgundy 2024 – fermenting – the serious issues September 23, 2024
    The time has come to evaluate the findings and details found during the 2024 harvest – what is good – and what is bad seen here before the fermentation. I know it is early – but there are at least some heavy question marks … and some strong doubts. Low ripeness – sugar, physiological and phenolic ripeness The ...
  • Vintage 2024 … a battle for ripeness September 12, 2024
    The harvest has now started … with the reds … as we see serious struggles with getting sufficient ripeness in the whites. There is a good acidity so there is time to wait … if Botrytis and other fungus are not taking over the vineyards. It is however time for a small update article on the 2024s ...

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