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 Port; a humbler wine ages faster, a very great one far slower.
| Vintage | Rating | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Great | 2029–2063 |
| 2018 | Great | 2028–2062 |
| 2017 | Outstanding | 2028–2065 |
| 2016 | Outstanding | 2027–2064 |
| 2011 | Outstanding | 2022–2059 |
| 2009 | Great | 2019–2053 |
| 2007 | Outstanding | 2018–2055 |
| 2003 | Outstanding | 2014–2051 |
| 2000 | Outstanding | 2011–2048 |
| 1997 | Outstanding | 2008–2045 |
| 1994 | Outstanding | 2005–2042 |
| 1992 | Great | 2002–2036 |
| 1991 | Great | 2001–2035 |
| 1985 | Outstanding | 1996–2033 |
| 1983 | Great | 1993–2027 |
| 1980 | Great | 1990–2024 |
| 1977 | Outstanding | 1988–2025 |
| 1970 | Outstanding | 1981–2018 |
| 1966 | Great | 1976–2010 |
| 1963 | Outstanding | 1974–2011 |
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.