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 vintage Champagne; a humbler wine ages faster, a very great one far slower.
| Vintage | Rating | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Great | 2027–2041 |
| 2018 | Great | 2026–2040 |
| 2016 | Good | 2024–2036 |
| 2015 | Good | 2023–2035 |
| 2014 | Good | 2022–2034 |
| 2013 | Great | 2021–2035 |
| 2012 | Outstanding | 2020–2036 |
| 2009 | Good | 2017–2029 |
| 2008 | Outstanding | 2016–2032 |
| 2006 | Great | 2014–2028 |
| 2004 | Great | 2012–2026 |
| 2002 | Outstanding | 2010–2026 |
| 2000 | Good | 2008–2020 |
| 1999 | Good | 2007–2019 |
| 1998 | Good | 2006–2018 |
| 1996 | Outstanding | 2004–2020 |
| 1995 | Great | 2003–2017 |
| 1990 | Outstanding | 1998–2014 |
| 1989 | Great | 1997–2011 |
| 1988 | Great | 1996–2010 |
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.