Category Archives: Bordeaux 2021

Bordeaux 2021 weather and crop report

April 30 2022

This article is also published on jancisrobinson.com here and on Liv-ex – the global marketplace for fine wines. In fact, here’s a link to all my harvest reports on Liv-ex. These links will open on a separate page.

Bordeaux welcomed professionals from the world of fine wine – for the first time in three years – for the spring tastings of the latest vintage at the end of April. As the ‘en primeur’ tastings of young samples by critics, commentators and merchants confirmed, 2021 is a comparatively weaker and uneven vintage for reds, even if very good for the whites (which are made in much smaller volumes).

Here’s my report of how the weather during the Bordeaux growing season left a fairly indelible mark on the style of the wines and the volumes produced.

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The red harvest around Bordeaux – photo journal, Nov 2021

November 30 2021

In our recent photo journals about the harvest this autumn, we included just a couple of pictures of other Bordeaux estates. We covered the 2021 white harvest at Bauduc, and separately the red and rosé harvest one here in case you missed them. As it’s still no simple matter to travel, we thought we’d bring you some images of what went on in other vineyards. Even if you have little interest in wine production, at least it makes a change from the news in general.

Speaking of which, you may have read in the press that there’s going to be a shortage of wine in the UK this Christmas. There are some serious obstacles, that’s true, but for now rest assured that we do have stock in London, ready and waiting should you need it. Take a look at ‘All wines’ for our stuff, including mixed cases, and ‘Other châteaux’ for those from friends and colleagues.

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