Champagne Vintage Chart: Every Year 2000 to 2024
Champagne 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
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Meunier
Typical window
10 to 30 years from vintage for declared wines, longer for late-disgorged bottles
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14 of 25 vintages
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Champagne vintage chart
Sommo drinking-window engine · updated July 2026| Vintage | Rating | Verdict | Drinking window | What happened |
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| 2024 | ★★☆☆☆ | hold | 2031 to 2038 | Frost, a wet spring, and heavy mildew pressure cut the harvest badly, and little is expected to be bottled as a vintage wine. |
| 2023 | ★★★☆☆ | hold | 2030 to 2040 | A big crop and a humid stretch before harvest made sorting decisive, so declaration is likely to be selective and the wines look fresh but mid-weight. |
| 2022 | ★★★★☆ | hold | 2029 to 2045 | Heat and drought delivered a large, exceptionally clean crop with high ripeness, and early indications point to a widely declared vintage of generous, structured wines. |
| 2021 | ★☆☆☆☆ | hold | 2029 to 2034 | A cold, soaking summer with frost damage and devastating mildew produced barely usable fruit, and almost no house will declare it. |
| 2020 | ★★★★☆ | hold | 2028 to 2042 | An early, warm, dry season gave ripe, healthy fruit with good balance and was declared broadly, though most of the wines are only now approaching release. |
| 2019 | ★★★★☆ | hold | 2027 to 2042 | Frost and severe heat spikes cut yields sharply while the dry finish kept acidity intact, and this widely declared vintage produced concentrated wines that still need lees age to show fully. |
| 2018 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2025 to 2040 | A hot, dry summer produced an enormous, perfectly healthy crop with high ripeness, it was widely declared, and the wines are rich and open with softer acidity. |
| 2017 | ★★☆☆☆ | drink | 2023 to 2028 | Persistent rain and rot at harvest ruined much of the crop and declarations were scarce, with the few wines released best drunk soon. |
| 2016 | ★★☆☆☆ | drink | 2023 to 2030 | Frost, mildew, and a difficult flowering slashed yields, and although a late warm spell rescued ripeness, only a handful of houses declared. |
| 2015 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2022 to 2034 | A hot, dry summer with rain at picking gave ripe, low-acid fruit of uneven quality, so declarations were selective and the wines are broad and forward. |
| 2014 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2021 to 2032 | A wet August threatened the crop before a dry September saved it, and the patchily declared wines are fresh and Pinot-driven with modest depth. |
| 2013 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2020 to 2034 | A very late season finished cleanly and cool, giving high-acid, tightly drawn wines that a moderate number of houses declared. |
| 2012 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2019 to 2042 | Frost, hail, and mildew cut the crop to a fraction of normal, but a superb late summer ripened what remained into concentrated, deeply structured wines that were declared almost everywhere. |
| 2011 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2017 to 2025 | A hot, early spring collapsed into a wet, disease-ridden summer with off flavors in the fruit, and declarations were rare. |
| 2010 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2016 to 2025 | Heavy rain and rot at harvest forced ruthless sorting, few houses declared, and the wines released were pleasant but short. |
| 2009 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2016 to 2032 | A warm, sunny summer gave ripe, low-acid, generous fruit, and the widely declared wines are broad and approachable rather than long-distance runners. |
| 2008 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2016 to 2045 | A cool season with a dry, sunny finish preserved exceptionally high acidity alongside full ripeness, it was widely declared, and these tightly wound wines are only beginning to open. |
| 2007 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2013 to 2027 | A cool, wet summer and early picking made a patchy year that only some houses declared, with Chardonnay from the Côte des Blancs faring best. |
| 2006 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2013 to 2032 | A hot July and a warm, dry September gave ripe, generous fruit, and this broadly declared vintage produced richly textured wines drinking beautifully today. |
| 2005 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2011 to 2024 | Rot pressure and uneven ripening late in the season limited declarations, and the heavier, earlier-maturing wines have mostly had their day. |
| 2004 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2012 to 2032 | An enormous but healthy crop ripened in a fine late season, and this widely declared vintage gave fresh, elegant, finely balanced wines that are singing now. |
| 2003 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2009 to 2022 | Spring frost destroyed much of the crop and the summer heatwave forced the earliest harvest in living memory, producing atypically fat, low-acid wines that few houses declared and that aged quickly. |
| 2002 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2010 to 2038 | A warm, dry, near-perfect season gave ripe, powerful, high-acid base wines, it was declared almost universally, and the results remain benchmarks. |
| 2001 | ★☆☆☆☆ | past | 2006 to 2015 | Cold, relentlessly wet conditions brought rot and unripe fruit, and virtually nobody declared it. |
| 2000 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2008 to 2028 | A mixed, damp season produced ripe but unremarkable fruit, and the millennium made declaration commercially irresistible, so quality varies more than the label count suggests. |
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.
Most Champagne has no vintage at all, and that is the point of it. The house style is built by blending across years and reserve wines precisely so the bottle does not depend on the weather. A vintage chart therefore speaks only to declared vintage wines, which are a small fraction of what is sold.
When a house declares, it is making a claim: this year was good enough to stand alone. That claim is worth reading against the chart, because declarations are a commercial decision as well as a quality one, and the years everybody declared are not always the years that aged best.
Common questions
Not really. Non-vintage Champagne is blended across years specifically to iron out vintage variation, so the house and the disgorgement date tell you far more than the harvest does. This chart is for declared vintage wines only.
Legally it spends at least three years on lees, and in practice most houses hold it much longer. From release, a vintage Champagne typically drinks well for ten to twenty five years, gaining toast, nuts, and honey while the mousse softens. Prestige cuvées from strong years go further still.
That most major houses judged the harvest good enough to bottle on its own rather than folding it into the blend. It is a strong signal, but not a guarantee: declarations respond to stock levels and market appetite as well as to quality, and a few excellent years have been under-declared.
You can, and it rewards it, but the storage has to be right: dark, still, and stable at around 12C. Champagne is more sensitive to temperature swings than still wine because the pressure inside the bottle amplifies them. If your storage is a kitchen cupboard, drink it young.
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.