New season … vintage 2024

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 … and some even before the harvest 2025.

2024 is a small vintage due to mildew and other problems caused by the humid weather. The reds are down with 50% to 100% in most red areas … with some cuvees not made and with many wines produced in minuscule quantities.

So expect a lot of oak issues as there is a lot of one oak wine – i.e. only one barrel produced.

The whites are much better quantity-wise, but as with the reds, the ripeness levels are not impressive … with chaptalisation being necessary… let’s see how the molasse crumbles.

And like other years … my goal is not to visit all producers … it is to visit the good producers and the exciting new ones, hoping to find the next great creator of Vin d`émotion.

Vin d’emotion … the key

I have been focused on finishing the definition and the refinement of Vin d’émotion, and this work is almost done.

I am looking forward to focusing on the phenolic ripeness as this, in the end, is extremely important in the creation of a true vin d’émotion.

Vin d´émotion – basics 101

Lets go all Vin d’émotion in 2025

Back to the vineyards

After a year with Vin d’émotion, I am longing to go back to the vineyard articles. A lot of seasoned readers have suggested that I take a new and stronger tango with the vineyard articles.

This will be in a partly new format … to accept that many of these vineyards are not historically documented and should be handled on a geographic and geological level, rather than to dive into ownership history. As many times before, the information on historic ownerships is simply not stored or remembered, long forgotten in many village terroirs.

So, more vineyard views in 2025