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 Barossa Shiraz; a humbler wine ages faster, a very great one far slower.
| Vintage | Rating | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Outstanding | 2025–2039 |
| 2020 | Good | 2024–2035 |
| 2019 | Good | 2023–2034 |
| 2018 | Great | 2022–2035 |
| 2016 | Great | 2020–2033 |
| 2015 | Great | 2019–2032 |
| 2014 | Good | 2018–2029 |
| 2013 | Good | 2017–2028 |
| 2012 | Great | 2016–2029 |
| 2010 | Outstanding | 2014–2028 |
| 2006 | Great | 2010–2023 |
| 2005 | Great | 2009–2022 |
| 2004 | Great | 2008–2021 |
| 2002 | Great | 2006–2019 |
| 1998 | Outstanding | 2002–2016 |
| 1996 | Great | 2000–2013 |
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.