With Bordeaux’s 2023 en primeur campaign in full swing, Wine Lister’s partner critics have now published their scores and notes. Ratings from Antonio Galloni and Neal Martin from Vinous, Jancis Robinson, Bettane+Desseauve, and Ella Lister from Le Figaro Vin inform our all-encompassing 100-point Wine Lister score, comprising an average that accounts for each critic’s scale and scoring habits.

The top-33 wines of the vintage can be seen above, with all estates in this ranking boasting overall scores of 95 and above, as shown on the Wine Lister website. Here, the scores are shown to one decimal place to enable a more detailed ranking within the top scorers.

The majority of the highest-scoring 2023s have seen a decrease in their Wine Lister rating since last year’s record offering. Only three wines out of the top 33 have seen increases: Suduiraut, Margaux, and L’Extravagant de Doisy-Daëne. 33 wines score over 95 in the 2023 vintage, compared to 64 wines in 2022.

Though not released en primeur (buyers will have to wait until the estate has deemed the vintage ready to drink), Latour earns the top spot on the list with a Wine Lister score of 97.1, having moved up two spots since the 2022 ranking. Fellow first growth, Suduiraut, earns the second-highest score (96.8, up 34 places), while Margaux follows with 96.7 (up 15 places). Figeac appears in fifth place (96.5, up five places), followed by La Conseillante (96.3, up one place), L’Extravagant de Doisy-Daëne (96.3, up 36 places), Lafite Rothschild (96.2, down 3 places), Lafleur (96.0, up 14 places), Le Pin (96.0, up 14 places), and Cheval Blanc (96.0, down 10 places).

Our biggest climber this year in the top 33 is Suduiraut, which gained 1.1 points and claimed second place on the list, where the average change in scores was a decrease of 0.9. Outside this group of 33, the biggest climber was Lascombes, whose score increased by 2.5 points, moving from 265th position in 2022 to 68th in 2023.

The Left Bank holds 56% of the top positions on the leaderboard in 2023 (on par with 2022). By appellation, Saint-Émilion occupies the majority (24.2%) of places on the list, while Pomerol is right behind, assuming 22% of the list.

Two sweet whites have made their way onto the list this year: Suduiraut with 96.8 (in second position), and L’Extravagant de Doisy-Daëne with a score of 96.3. There were no sweet wines on the top-30 list last year, suggesting that 2023 may pique the interest of Sauternes fans.

Beyond the leaderboard, the dry white that received the highest Wine Lister score this year is Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc (45th position, 94.2 points), followed by Haut-Brion Blanc (53rd position, 94.0 points), and Domaine de Chevalier Blanc, last year’s top-scoring dry white (78th position, 93.4 points).

Track all en primeur scores and releases on our en primeur page here.