The 2024 vintage in Europe, and in Bordeaux in particular, has been remarked on for the incredibly difficult growing season producers faced. Cold, wet weather, mildew, poor flowering, poor fruit set followed by a hot (but not solar) summer, with a coup de grace of rain during the harvest period. But as the cliché goes, there are no more bad vintages in Bordeaux, and the results in 2024 couldn’t be a better example. There were many wines that will not make the grade, to be sure, but at select addresses the results were nothing short of fantastic, and if the wines are released at the lower prices expected, there will be tremendous value to be had.