As mentioned far downthread, I am thrilled to see such a high response rate this year. As I said, we ended up wtih 937 total entries.
For benchmarking, last year (out of 520 or so) the 1988 D’Yquem was first-place with 4 votes. 5 other wines received 3 votes each. In terms of house references, D’Yquem had 12, Selosse 10 and Mugnier and Keller 8 each.
Let’s trundle on to 2024
A repeat winner, the 2001 D’Yquem sits as the WOTY with 6 total votes. Right behind it with 5 votes is the 2006 Krug Clos du Mesnil and then Selosse Initial (various disgorgements) and the 2013 Cristal shared the show position with 4 votes each. A passle of other wines came in with 3, including some fun surprises.
- 2006 Bollinger VV Francaise
- 1982 Cheval Blanc
- 1983 D’Yquem
- 1982 Margaux
- 2001 DRC La Tache
- 2002 Emidio Pepe Montepulciano (!)
- 2010 Sauzet Montrachet
- 2023 Jasud Own Rooted Cab
- 2018 L’Anglore Tavel Rose
- 2005 Patty Green Notorious PN
- 1996 Rousseau CSJ
- 2001 Rousseau Clos de Beze
- 2006 Taittinger CdC
- Ulysse Collin Les Perrieres
In terms of house representation, Krug was tops with 26 total references. Rousseau took 2nd place there with 22 and D’Yquem trails them with 19. The others who garnered 8 or more
Cedric Bouchard – 14
Cheval Blanc – 10
Coche-Dury – 9
DRC – 12
Drouhin – 9
Dujac – 11 (highest ever for them, I think)
Emidio Pepe – 8 (ditto for sure)
Mugneret-Gibourg – 14 (ditto with a cherry and chinaware on top!)
Goodfellow – 8
Huet – 12 (with I believe the widest range, from 1919 to 2010)
Keller – 10
Roederer – 12
Roumier – 8
Selosse – 10
Taittinger – 11
Ulysse Collin – 10
Lopez de Heredia – 9 (1 Bosconia, 1 Tondonia red and the rest Tondonia white)
Some other stuff…
Well, PYCM and Salon were both a little lower than I’d expected with 7 each. As happens, not that many Calicabs. No Bryant, No Abreu, No Kapscandy. Only one Rivers-Marie. And in the non-Cab part of things, no Kongsgaard, no Littorai of any stripe, one Marcassin. Ridge did OK with 7 mentions
A real surprise. Only one Latour. Interesting! Only one Egon Muller. No Angelus. 4 Prums and 3 Donnhoffs, which are both lower numbers than I might have thought. And Supertuscans didn’t show up—zero Masseto, zero Tig, zero Sassicaia. Only a couple of Juge and Allemand. Only one La-La. And one Vega. Only one port. And only one Dom mention
It was fun to see Cecile Tremblay with a strong 6-vote showing. Ditto Goodfellow on a strong showing and nice to see a couple mentions of Extradimensional Wine Co Yeah! Yay Larry and Tercero as well.
Last comment. Ruchottes Chambertin is something a lot of people got to talk about this time. I think the vineyard ended up with 11 (between Rousseau and M-G)
But more than anything, the spectrum of wines listed was far and away the widest I’ve ever seen. It’s super-energizing to see the diversity in our community. On to 2025!
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Hey—no sassing. I waited all the way till the beginning of November! 
As always, feel free to jump on with your respective lists. This has already been an excellent year for me (although not yet with any true soul-drenching-standout) and that’s without the major road trip in a couple of weeks. I expect there to be a number of additions. We’ll see if anything displaces the Prager.
I haven’t had my Discovery of the Year, but I’m sure I will this coming Sunday. That’s when I’ll be at a dinner at which a 1715 Madeira will be opened. I feel privileged and very fortunate to get to try. Edit—Yup. The 1715 Terrantez Madeira is DEFINITELY the DOTY
As usual, I have provided a score only where my tasting note on the wine prompted that extra level of “description”. Also as usual, I will do the tabulations in the first week of January. Also, if there are any other WOTY threads already started (e.g. halfway-through-the-year), please feel free to link them so that I can add any wines in those threads to the tabulations. Thanks all!
2016 Prager Achleiten Gruner Veltliner (96)
2010 Siro Pacenti Brunello (95)
2013 Westcott Brilliant Sparkling
2018 Greyscale Cab
Ulysses Collin Les Perrieres BdB NV (91)
1995 Krug
2017 Rousseau Ruchottes Chambertin Clos des Ruchottes
2016 Canalicchio del Sopra Brunello (93++)
2019 Beta Maus Cab (92+)
1966 Chateau Boyd Cantenac
1985 Castella di Rampola Chianti (92)
2002 Emidio Pepe Montepulciano D’Abruzzo (94)
2015 Meo Camuzet Corton Charlemagne
2015 Trapet Chambertin (92+)
1992 Vina Tondonia Blanco
1979 J.J. Prum Wehlehner Sonnenuhr Ries Auslese
2018 Hubert Lamy St. Aubin Murgers des Dents du Chien
2014 La Clarte Haut Brion Blanc
1995 Bartolo Mascarello Ca’ D Morissio Barolo Monprivato
2008 Zind-Humbrecht Clos Jebsal Turckheim PG SGN
2022 Roulot Meursault Clos des Boucheres
2019 Poggio Salvi Pomona Brunello
2005 Pignan CdP
2000 Chateau Musar
2016 Rhys Alpine Chard
1840 J. Borges Boal Solera Madeira (94)
1982 Chateau Figeac
2010 Copain Kiser Combe de Gres (95)
2001 Monchhof Erdener Pralat Gustabfullung Ries Auslese
2000 Rousseau Ruchottes-Chambertin Clos des Ruchottes
