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 Ribera del Duero; a humbler wine ages faster, a very great one far slower.
| Vintage | Rating | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Great | 2025–2038 |
| 2020 | Good | 2024–2035 |
| 2019 | Great | 2023–2036 |
| 2018 | Good | 2022–2033 |
| 2017 | Average | 2021–2030 |
| 2016 | Great | 2020–2033 |
| 2015 | Great | 2019–2032 |
| 2012 | Good | 2016–2027 |
| 2011 | Great | 2015–2028 |
| 2010 | Outstanding | 2014–2028 |
| 2009 | Great | 2013–2026 |
| 2004 | Outstanding | 2008–2022 |
| 2001 | Outstanding | 2005–2019 |
| 1999 | Great | 2003–2016 |
| 1996 | Great | 2000–2013 |
| 1994 | Outstanding | 1998–2012 |
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.