Bordeaux En Primeur vintage 2023: The problem child as a stroke of luck?

The official start for the tasting of young Bordeaux wines for the specialist trade took place on Monday, 22 April, and the trade press already had the opportunity to get an overview beforehand. The Falstaff tasting team was already on site a week beforehand, and over 500 wines were assessed at the wineries, at the merchants and at collective tastings of various appellations. The ratings of all the wines tasted have been available to our readers free of charge on the Falstaff website since Friday, April 26. From Monday 29 April, the first prizes were announced by the wine estates: two Premier Grands Crus Classés, Lafite-Rothschild and Mouton-Rothschild, lead the way, along with crowd favorites such as Valandraud and Ponet-Canet.