2024 Burgundy—A Dog of a Year Bites Back
The 2024 Burgundy vintage was, to put it mildly, “difficult”. A combination of weather events during the growing season and harvest made the prospects for the iconic region’s wines unsettled. Margaret Rand, writing for Wine-Searcher, reviews the vintage, the pricing of the wines, and the prospects for the bottlings in an uncertain market.
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