The news is out for the 2024 harvest in Burgundy and it’s pretty stark. “Scarce, yet flavourful” reads the lead line from the regional press release. In what has gotten to be rather typical situation in Burgundy, after two plentiful years (2022 and 2023), 2024 has been very, very lean, largely due to adverse weather that lowered the crop yields. It wasn’t however one single event that led to the losses as was the case with heavy frost in 2021. It was simply a hard year with plentiful rain after […]

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