The Hudin Top 100 – 2024 is out now!
To date, 2024 is a year that saw reviews and coverage at their highest levels with nearly 4,000 wines reviewed from Spain, France, and Eastern Europe and with the release of this list, it marks the 35th Tasting Report of the year.
There are far too many reports to list here, but some of the most extensive reports of the year were for DOQ Priorat, DOC Rioja, Burgundy, AOC Gigondas, DO Alicante, AOC Châteauneuf-du-Pape and the entire country of Croatia, as well as many more.
There were some ground rules that had to be into place for this selection with the first being that the wines needed to have a local retail price of around 200€ or less. Why this limit? To us it seemed like the uppermost price someone would pay locally for a very special bottle to enjoy. While consumers in the NYC, SF, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and other well-known wine cities are often willing to pay a good deal more, keep in mind that a 200€ bottle will most definitely be a great deal more once exported to foreign shores.
Unfortunately this knocked out countless Burgundy wines as anything that started looking a bit more interesting from the region, quickly became very spendy. Despite this, there are a few Burgundy wines that make it into the list. Get them while you still can!
The final price range for all the wines runs from around 8€ up to 200€, so there’s definitely something for everyone.
This year, the colors of wine are: 70% red, 28% white, 1% rosé, and 1% orange.
Please keep in mind that the wines are listed alphabetically by winery name and this does not represent a ranking. In order to view the entire list sorted by scores with access to the full reviews (as well as the thousands of articles and wine reviews on Hudin.com), one needs to be a paid subscriber. We will however tell you that the #1 wine this year was a tie between the: Pure Rouge from Domaine Barroche in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Pepe Mendoza – Fierroca in DO Alicante, and Roda – Cirsion in DOC Rioja.
