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 Rioja; a humbler wine ages faster, a very great one far slower.
| Vintage | Rating | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Good | 2025–2037 |
| 2021 | Great | 2024–2038 |
| 2020 | Good | 2023–2035 |
| 2019 | Great | 2022–2036 |
| 2018 | Good | 2021–2033 |
| 2017 | Average | 2020–2030 |
| 2016 | Great | 2019–2033 |
| 2015 | Great | 2018–2032 |
| 2014 | Great | 2017–2031 |
| 2013 | Drink up | 2016–2024 |
| 2012 | Good | 2015–2027 |
| 2011 | Great | 2014–2028 |
| 2010 | Outstanding | 2013–2028 |
| 2005 | Great | 2008–2022 |
| 2004 | Outstanding | 2007–2022 |
| 2001 | Outstanding | 2004–2019 |
| 1995 | Great | 1998–2012 |
| 1994 | Outstanding | 1997–2012 |
| 1982 | Outstanding | 1985–2000 |
| 1981 | Great | 1984–1998 |
| 1970 | Great | 1973–1987 |
| 1964 | Outstanding | 1967–1982 |
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.