Red Burgundy Vintage Chart: 2000 to 2024
Red Burgundy vintage chart with a rating, a drink or hold verdict, and a drinking window for all 25 vintages from 2000 to 2024. Free, no sign-up.
Grapes
Pinot Noir
Typical window
5 to 20 years from vintage for premier and grand cru, 3 to 8 for village wines
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Red Burgundy vintage chart
Sommo drinking-window engine · updated July 2026| Vintage | Rating | Verdict | Drinking window | What happened |
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| 2024 | ★★☆☆☆ | hold | 2028 to 2034 | Frost, hail, and relentless mildew through a wet season left a tiny, difficult crop and light, tart, early-drinking wines. |
| 2023 | ★★★☆☆ | hold | 2027 to 2036 | A very large crop and a warm, humid stretch before harvest made yields and sorting the deciding factors, so quality is uneven and the wines are supple and mid-weight. |
| 2022 | ★★★★☆ | hold | 2027 to 2042 | A hot, dry summer produced a large but healthy crop, and the wines are ripe and juicy with more freshness than the weather suggested, still tightening in bottle. |
| 2021 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2025 to 2034 | Frost and heavy mildew pressure through a cold, wet summer cut yields to almost nothing, and the wines are pale, fragrant, and light in an old-style way. |
| 2020 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2025 to 2040 | A very early, very hot harvest gave dark, dense, high-alcohol wines with surprisingly fresh acidity and grippy tannin under the sweet fruit. |
| 2019 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2024 to 2042 | Frost and heat spikes shrank the crop while a dry finish concentrated it, giving wines that combine ripeness, depth, and a firm acid spine. |
| 2018 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2023 to 2036 | A hot, dry summer and a large crop produced dark, ripe, plush wines with low acidity that are enjoyable young and unlikely to need decades. |
| 2017 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2021 to 2030 | A generous, healthy crop after two tiny years gave supple, charming, openly fruity wines that were approachable early and are showing well now. |
| 2016 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2021 to 2036 | A brutal late April frost destroyed much of the crop, yet the surviving fruit ripened in a fine late summer into perfumed, precise, classically weighted wines. |
| 2015 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2021 to 2042 | A hot, dry summer with small yields produced dark, thickly textured wines with ripe tannin and unusual power for the region, needing time but rewarding it. |
| 2014 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2019 to 2033 | Hail struck again in midsummer but a cool, dry September restored balance, giving fresh, red-fruited, tautly structured wines that are drinking beautifully. |
| 2013 | ★★☆☆☆ | drink | 2018 to 2028 | A cold, late season with damaging hail in the Côte de Beaune produced tart, lean, sometimes stalky wines that are best drunk before the fruit thins further. |
| 2012 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2017 to 2032 | Frost, hail, and poor flowering reduced the crop drastically, but what survived ripened well into concentrated, firmly structured wines of real quality. |
| 2011 | ★★☆☆☆ | drink | 2015 to 2027 | A hot spring pushed everything forward into an early, showery harvest, and the light, soft, early-maturing wines should be finished rather than filed away. |
| 2010 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2016 to 2038 | Poor flowering cut yields sharply and a cool, clean growing season followed, giving pure, finely detailed wines with classic proportions and long-term stamina. |
| 2009 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2014 to 2032 | A warm, sunny, trouble-free season produced ripe, sweetly fruited and immediately generous wines with soft tannin and moderate acidity. |
| 2008 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2014 to 2030 | A miserable summer was saved by a dry, cold north wind before harvest that shriveled and concentrated the fruit, giving tense, mineral, high-acid wines that reward patience. |
| 2007 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2011 to 2023 | A wet, cool summer and early picking gave pale, fragrant, high-acid wines that were pretty in their first decade and are mostly drying out. |
| 2006 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2011 to 2027 | Hail and rot in places forced heavy sorting after a hot July, and the successful wines are open, red-fruited, and gently structured, at their peak now. |
| 2005 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2013 to 2040 | A dry, warm, disease-free season produced small berries and wines of rare density and structure that have taken twenty years to begin unfurling. |
| 2004 | ★☆☆☆☆ | past | 2008 to 2018 | A large crop, a cold wet August, and widespread green, stalky character left most wines hollow and vegetal, and time has not been kind to them. |
| 2003 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2007 to 2023 | The heatwave cooked the crop and forced a record early harvest, giving dark, low-acid, atypically sweet wines that matured quickly and rarely gained complexity. |
| 2002 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2008 to 2028 | A dry, breezy late season concentrated a moderate crop into balanced, silky wines with excellent aromatic definition that have aged with real grace. |
| 2001 | ★★★☆☆ | past | 2006 to 2023 | A cool, patchy season with hail in places produced firm, savory wines that were more interesting than their reputation, though only the sturdiest bottles are still fresh. |
| 2000 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2004 to 2018 | A damp summer and rain through picking gave dilute, softly fruited wines that were charming at five years old and have little left to say now. |
Ratings are Sommo's own reading of the vintage, on a five-point scale. Verdicts come from the same drinking-window engine the app runs on a bottle you scan, so a chart here and a bottle in your cellar are judged the same way. 5 of these vintages are past their best by our reckoning, which is the column most charts quietly leave out.
Pinot Noir is thin-skinned, early-budding, and grown in a place that gets frost, hail, and rain in roughly that order. No other classic red has vintages this uneven, and no other region has villages a mile apart that can disagree about whether a year was any good.
Treat this chart as the regional average it is. A hailstorm that flattened one commune left the next one untouched more often than the summaries admit, and the difference between a village wine and a grand cru from the same year is usually larger than the difference between two adjacent years.
Common questions
Village wines are usually best between four and ten years, premier crus between six and eighteen, and grand crus for twenty or more in a strong year. Pinot Noir has less tannin than Cabernet or Nebbiolo, so it goes through a closed, awkward phase rather than a long tannic one, then emerges.
A period, often somewhere between years four and eight, when a wine that showed beautifully on release goes mute: the fruit recedes, nothing much replaces it, and the bottle tastes like a mistake. It passes. If a young Burgundy disappoints, put the rest of the case away for two years rather than writing it off.
Warmer growing seasons have made ripeness far more reliable than it was in the 1990s, which has raised the floor. Whether it has raised the ceiling is a live argument: the very warmest years give generous, early-drinking wines that some tasters find less precise than a cooler classic year.
No. Beaujolais is Gamay on granite with a different growing cycle and a different aging curve, and it often has a good year when the Côte d'Or does not. Use this chart for the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune only.
They are Sommo's own reading of each vintage, on a five-point scale, and the verdicts come from the same drinking-window logic the app applies to a bottle you scan. They are not aggregated critic scores.