Year by year · indicative benchmarks: the producer and storage conditions come first.
A vintage does not only say whether the wine was good: it says how long it keeps. A great year outlives a modest one, and that is what this page puts next to every year. The windows below are for a Mosel or Rhine Riesling; a humbler wine ages faster, a very great one far slower.
| Vintage | Rating | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Great | 2025–2040 |
| 2022 | Good | 2024–2037 |
| 2021 | Great | 2023–2038 |
| 2020 | Good | 2022–2035 |
| 2019 | Great | 2021–2036 |
| 2018 | Great | 2020–2035 |
| 2017 | Great | 2019–2034 |
| 2016 | Great | 2018–2033 |
| 2015 | Outstanding | 2017–2033 |
| 2014 | Average | 2016–2027 |
| 2013 | Average | 2015–2026 |
| 2012 | Great | 2014–2029 |
| 2011 | Great | 2013–2028 |
| 2010 | Great | 2012–2027 |
| 2009 | Great | 2011–2026 |
| 2008 | Good | 2010–2023 |
| 2007 | Great | 2009–2024 |
| 2006 | Average | 2008–2019 |
| 2005 | Outstanding | 2007–2023 |
| 2004 | Good | 2006–2019 |
| 2003 | Great | 2005–2020 |
| 2002 | Good | 2004–2017 |
| 2001 | Outstanding | 2003–2019 |
| 1999 | Good | 2001–2014 |
| 1997 | Great | 1999–2014 |
| 1994 | Great | 1996–2011 |
| 1990 | Outstanding | 1992–2008 |
A year missing from this table is not a bad year: it is a year we would rather not rule on. Better silence than a rating pulled out of thin air.
See also ageing by appellation.
Caviste computes this window for every bottle in your cellar: photograph the label, the sheet fills itself in (estate, vintage, appellation) and the app tells you when a bottle reaches its peak. Discover Caviste.