2024 - The WORST Vintage in History?!

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Almost irrespective of the season's patchiness one feels that, as far as possible we should try to support the viticulture of Spain, as the people, even though the harvest was in before the horrible weather, have suffered so badly. When 2024 vintage hits the market I, for this reason would be interested in the details of the best, at all price points, this great wine making nation has to offer.
On a selfish note, The Douro seems to have got off lightly, a few years ago a major UK supermarket had a wine simply labelled "Douro", a Denominacion but blended wine which felt & tasted like a young red Port, the people (greedy *******s, self included to a degree) gobbled the lot up super quickstyle, as it was £6.00, I mean COME ON, what more can you possibly want, if you like that style?! Ruby red, clear, mature fruit, and a bit of sweetness balanced with some tannic grip. I hope this happens again!
Thanks for the info Konstantin, and I hope you get a whole stack of those classic shirts! 🌟👍

Oh yeah...🥶"Global Warming"❄️...

Argentina, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Chile don't exist?

Some port producers are saying they are excited about the 2024 vintage. One producer has said the 2024 vintage is the most exciting they've seen in 30 years. Looking forward to 2026 - hope to see many declared vintages for 2024.

My wallet needs a break after the fantastic 2023 in California. My bank account couldn't take another fantastic vintage, so looks like I will sit our 2024. Sorry wineries.

Maybee a year to buy "seconds vins" as the wineries may not issue the first wines...

I'm really curious to see if the old world will start adopting more of the new world hybrids especially those that have more disease and frost resistance

People are starving world wide. The land you use to produce your hobby, could feed millions. Please look at yourself in the mirror. You're not noble, Just pompous and elitist.

Great video! Its bad news, but I'm thankful for any channel that gives me correct information, regardless if it's positive or negative. I just want to know. Thank you, Kontstatin!

There was high disease pressure, but at least the grapes which are there ripened fully in Germany, so it was not the worst year in history, not even close to the vintages we had back in the 80s!

Looks like bad news for Europe but good news for North America. Probably reverse next year.

I expect the 2024 vintage to be drunk eventually by me and my friends and family. Looking forwards to an early preview with Beaujolais Nouveau on Thursday!

I'll mainly need to think about it in 6/10 years

Konstantin, what could you say about the 2024 harvest for Brazilian wines?

I guess everybody is drinking new worlds for 2024 vintage.

here in North Canterbury and Central Otago, great start.

I'm working toward my first (hobbyist-scale) harvest next year – hoping for a more juicy 2025! Also, you look very stylish

Start collecting English and Swedish wines. Got it.

The palate will tell the tale.

What have you heard about the 2024 Bordeaux vintage? I keep hearing conflicted information some saying it was a miracle whereas some saying it was very wet and alcohol went to like 12% ish😮

I like less demand especially when it comes to Bordeaux. Granted the quality has been rising over many years the prices just skyrocketed. The then very expensive 2000 vintage feels cheap today.

Hey Konstantin, can you tell about the growing season in Baden? Thank you

OR you can buy from small producers, knowing that the quality Will be a bit lower but you Will support family run business Who are strugling with an awfull year. Or you can go both way, few safe bottles from big names e few risky from small producers

When are you going to review some old Chateau Grillet?

time to review Argentina!

In Brazil we got heat wave after heat wave, so I believe anyone who says this is the hottest year ever.

Super interesting video! Looking forward to the 2025 harvest review!

Willamette Valley may have had the best vintage in the last decade. We can't wait to share these gorgeous wines with the world in a few years.

thanks fot this review, really interesting to see! Worked in Croatia, Dalmatia, near Primosten
we had a really low quantity due to the heat and no rain. mostly raisins on the vines... super low quantity, but the quality is one of the best we had!

There is also quite an amount of winemakers in Saale-Unstrut that lost 100 % of their grapes.

Servus Konstantin! Ich spare Geld zurzeit, um eine Flasche Yellowtail eventuel zu kaufen. Daumen drucken!

So, should we avoid this year when buying wine? Thanks, I've learned a lot through your channel.

Very interesting as always. I suggest you make this a yearly thing. Konstantin’s yearly vintage report. I would actually trust it more than most of the other copy paste reports we see every year.

The 2024 vintage here in the Northeast USA (I am 50km North of Boston) was WONDERFUL! We had heavy fruit set and drought that keep berries small and flavorful. It reminded me of 2016 but even better. 2016 had the highest scoring wines from my vineyard so far. 2023 on the other hand was as you described Germany in 2024 - Late frost, poor fruit set, and rain, rain, and more rain. I made only one vintage wine in 2023 (Brianna grape - that is almost sold out) and the 2024 Briana is the best I've had here (been growing it since 2006).

Thanks for the video. I was thinking the same thing that lower output could not be a terrible thing considering how many areas are ripping out vines because of lower demand. Given lower demand, it would be interesting to see a video sometime on this issue. If demand is down, why isn't the wine industry trying to change to attract more customers?

Thanks Konstantin. I have quite a few bottles in my cellar; I'll probably skip the entire 2024 vintage (even if I do understand that there will be some good wines available).

I would suggest focusing on each region, as much as you focused on Germany. 1-3mins per country and each country should cover a few regions

Could separate per continent and make 2-3 videos out of this

Countries that should be included:
Part 1:
France
Italy
Part 2:
Germany
Austria
Spain
Portugal
Part 3:
Australia
New-Zealand
South-Africa
Part 4:
Argentina
USA
Chile

I like to watch you drink wine

I’m in one of the most appreciated (white oriented) wineries in Piemonte and this year is just terrible. A lot of outside grape acquisitions and whatnot are happening everywhere, as everybody’s trying to “fix” the vintage. Gonna be hard one.

nice shirt

So ridiculously negative, lol. So Spain, Portugal, and the US West had great vintages (aside from the flooding, of course) and you’re saying it was the worst vintage ever for the world? Way to help the wine industry bud. Sounded like you had a gun pointed at you the entire video. Maybe pick up some energy and stop being so damn negative

Temperatures for Ontario, Canada, had no problems with the wine. Temperatures were perfect conditions near Niagara Falls, Canada. This is where 85% of Canadian wine is produced. In Southern Ontario, certain vines from British Columbia were a little bit on the harsh side due to certain frosts during the winter. This made production a bit slow, but certain grapes did grow large. It all went out very strange season for the whole year.

Die Temperaturen in Ontario, Kanada, waren für den Wein kein Problem. In der Nähe der Niagarafälle in Kanada herrschten perfekte Temperaturen. Hier werden 85 % des kanadischen Weins produziert. In Südontario waren bestimmte Weinreben aus British Columbia aufgrund des Frosts im Winter etwas zu hart. Dies verlangsamte die Produktion etwas, aber einige Trauben wuchsen trotzdem groß. Das ganze Jahr über war es eine sehr seltsame Jahreszeit.

Well, lets drink Australia/NZ and South America and South Africa this year :)

You had asked for topics, have you ever attempted to recreate the 1976 Judgement of Paris to see how the wines compare today?

It has been said that Bairrada, in Portugal, had a wonderful quality harvest in 2024.

But we'll know that on the glass after a few years.

Thank you for the video report Konstantin.

not for portugal

The only reason Germany is mentioned is because Konstantin is German. German wines are average at best, nothing exciting

I beg to differ. Little batches don’t mean bad wine. It means more expensive wine

...bro...Burgundy is on a great run...they love the temperature increases...just sayn