Ella Lister's top-33 Bordeaux 2024 en primeur scores (Le Figaro Vin)

Our founder and CEO, Ella Lister, will shortly be publishing her Bordeaux 2024 en primeur scores on Le Figaro Vin (see here). Here we share an avant-première of her top scores. All appellations are represented on this leaderboard, while Saint-Émilion occupies the majority of top spots once again (eight out of 33).

Of the 574 wines tasted by Ella and her colleague, Béatrice Delamotte, there were no potential 100-point scores. The highest score was awarded to Montrose – 96-99, on par with her score for its 2023 vintage – which Ella describes as having an “awe-inspiring” palate like “light pouring into a cathedral”. Lafite Rothschild, Petrus, and Pontet-Canet earn Ella’s second highest scores of 96-98. Ella praises Petrus’s “unending finish”, calling it the “longest of 2024 by far.”

Haut-Brion Blanc is the only dry white to feature on the leaderboard this year, having been awarded a score of 95-97, while Suduiraut makes a reappearance as the only sweet wine on the list with a score of 94-97. Ella describes Suduiraut 2024 as a “hypnotic” wine with a freshness that walks “on a taut tightrope above a sea of sweetness.”

Cheval Blanc and L’Église-Clinet score 95-98 and eleven wines are awarded 95-97 points, including First Growths, Haut-Brion Blanc, Latour, Margaux, and Mouton Rothschild. The Left Bank is also represented by Ducru Beaucaillou, Durfort-Vivens, Haut-Bailly, Léoville Las Cases, Pichon Baron, and the “sumptuous” Rauzan-Ségla. The other entries from the Right Bank include Angélus, Ausone, Figeac, La Conseillante, Lafleur, Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Pavie, Pavie Macquin, Tertre Roteboeuf, and Vieux Château Certan.

Making new appearances in the list of Ella’s top-scoring wines (recap last year’s blog here) are L’Église-Clinet (95-98), Cos d’Estournel (94-97), L’Évangile (94-96), and Lynch-Bages (94-96).

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