Bordeaux Arrivage: How good is the 2021 vintage?

The year 2021 did not seamlessly join the series of top years in Bordeaux, as 2020 and 2022 did. It was even capable of making the winegrowers in the Gironde sweat. It was plus 25 degrees at the beginning of April, followed by a shock: several nights of late frost were the overture, followed by a lot of rain and little sun during flowering in June and July, and finally a long period of drought.