White Burgundy Vintage Chart: 2000 to 2024
White Burgundy vintage chart with a rating, a drink or hold verdict, and a drinking window for all 25 vintages, including the premox years. Free, no sign-up.
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White Burgundy vintage chart
Sommo drinking-window engine · updated July 2026| Vintage | Rating | Verdict | Drinking window | What happened |
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| 2024 | ★★☆☆☆ | hold | 2027 to 2032 | Frost, hail, and persistent mildew through a wet season left a small, difficult crop of lean, sharply acidic whites that need a couple of years to soften. |
| 2023 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2026 to 2032 | A very large crop and a warm, humid run into harvest made yield control decisive, and the wines are pleasant and mid-weight but variable in concentration. |
| 2022 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2025 to 2036 | A hot, dry summer with a healthy, generous crop produced ripe, open, richly fruited whites that kept enough freshness to hold for a decade. |
| 2021 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2025 to 2032 | Frost and mildew reduced the crop to a fraction of normal, and the wines that emerged are lean, high-acid, and bracing in a distinctly cool-year style. |
| 2020 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2024 to 2034 | A very early harvest ahead of the worst summer heat captured ripe fruit with unexpectedly good acidity, giving pure, firmly built whites. |
| 2019 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2023 to 2036 | Frost and heat spikes cut yields while the dry finish preserved acidity, and the wines are concentrated and powerful yet vividly fresh. |
| 2018 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2021 to 2028 | A hot, dry summer and a big crop gave ripe, rounded, tropical-leaning whites with soft acidity that should be enjoyed sooner rather than later. |
| 2017 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2021 to 2032 | A healthy, generous crop ripened evenly in a warm, dry season, producing balanced, aromatic whites with both flesh and cut. |
| 2016 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2020 to 2032 | The April frost cut yields severely but a warm, dry late summer ripened the remainder into fresh, chiseled, tightly wound whites. |
| 2015 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2018 to 2027 | Heat and drought pushed sugars high and acidity low, giving rich, broad, honeyed whites that are best drunk before they turn heavy. |
| 2014 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2018 to 2034 | A cool, dry September after an unpromising summer delivered whites with textbook tension between ripe fruit and firm acidity, and they are still climbing. |
| 2013 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2017 to 2027 | A late, cold season with damaging hail produced a small crop of fresh, high-acid, citrus-toned wines that are drinking well right now. |
| 2012 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2016 to 2028 | Frost, hail, and poor flowering slashed the crop, but the concentrated survivors are dense, savory whites with plenty of grip. |
| 2011 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2014 to 2022 | An early, warm spring and a showery summer forced an early harvest, and the soft, low-acid wines were built for immediate drinking. |
| 2010 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2014 to 2032 | Small yields and a cool, clean season gave whites of unusual purity and balance, with the concentration and acidity to keep going well past twenty years. |
| 2009 | ★★★☆☆ | past | 2012 to 2024 | A warm, sunny year produced rich, ripe, low-acid whites that were delicious in their youth and are past their best now. |
| 2008 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2012 to 2028 | A dry, cold wind before harvest left concentrated fruit with searing acidity, and these tense, stony wines are among the most durable of their era. |
| 2007 | ★★★★☆ | past | 2010 to 2023 | A cool, early season suited Chardonnay better than Pinot Noir, giving taut, citrus-driven whites that aged well for a decade before thinning out. |
| 2006 | ★★★☆☆ | past | 2009 to 2020 | A hot July and a wet August produced ripe, broad, generously fruited whites that drank well early and have largely faded. |
| 2005 | ★★★☆☆ | past | 2008 to 2020 | The dry, warm season that made great reds gave whites more richness than tension, and few now show the freshness they need. |
| 2004 | ★★★☆☆ | past | 2007 to 2018 | A cool, wet year gave lean, high-acid, sometimes green wines that promised longevity but were badly hit by oxidation problems. |
| 2003 | ★☆☆☆☆ | past | 2005 to 2012 | The heatwave stripped out acidity entirely and the resulting broad, low-acid, tropical wines aged into flatness within a few years. |
| 2002 | ★★★★☆ | past | 2005 to 2020 | A dry, breezy autumn concentrated the fruit into the best whites of the early decade, balanced and long, though a great many bottles have since browned prematurely. |
| 2001 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2004 to 2014 | Rain around picking diluted an already modest crop, producing slight wines that were never meant for a long stay in the cellar. |
| 2000 | ★★★☆☆ | past | 2003 to 2014 | A damp season gave soft, forward wines with modest concentration, and premature oxidation has taken a heavy toll on what survived. |
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. 10 of these vintages are past their best by our reckoning, which is the column most charts quietly leave out.
White Burgundy has a problem no other vintage chart has to account for: premature oxidation. From the late 1990s onward, a significant number of bottles browned and flattened years before they should have, for reasons that were never fully pinned down and were probably several things at once. The result is that a good vintage from that era is not a reliable promise about the bottle in front of you.
That is why the past column here is longer than you might expect. It is not a judgment on how the wines were made, it is a judgment on what is likely to be in a bottle you open in 2026.
Common questions
A pattern, most visible in wines from the late 1990s through the 2000s, of bottles turning deep gold and tasting of bruised apple and sherry long before their expected peak. Suspected causes include changes in cork production, reduced sulfur at bottling, and riper picking. Producers have largely addressed it, but affected vintages remain unreliable.
Village wines are best between two and six years, premier crus between four and twelve, and the top grand crus for fifteen or more. Wines made since the mid-2010s have been noticeably more dependable than those from the premox era, so recent vintages can be cellared with more confidence.
Only loosely. Chablis is further north, on Kimmeridgian soil, more frost-prone, and generally unoaked, so its vintage pattern diverges from the Côte de Beaune. Frost years hit Chablis harder than anywhere else in Burgundy.
No. Some color development is normal with age, particularly in oaked wines. The tell is the smell: nutty, honeyed complexity is development, while bruised apple, sherry, and a flat finish where the fruit used to be is oxidation. If the wine tastes shorter than it smells, it has gone.
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.