Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vintage Chart: 2000 to 2024
Chateauneuf-du-Pape 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
Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre and up to 13 permitted varieties
Typical window
5 to 25 years from vintage, longer in the most structured years
Ready now
18 of 25 vintages
Still holding
3 vintages
Châteauneuf-du-Pape vintage chart
Sommo drinking-window engine · updated July 2026| Vintage | Rating | Verdict | Drinking window | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ★★★☆☆ | hold | 2028 to 2036 | A cool, damp growing season with disease pressure points to lighter, fresher wines and a vintage where selection matters most. |
| 2023 | ★★★☆☆ | hold | 2027 to 2036 | A humid spring with mildew pressure and a hot August produced uneven, generously ripe wines that vary a great deal by estate. |
| 2022 | ★★★★☆ | hold | 2027 to 2040 | An intensely hot, dry summer was rescued by August rain, giving ripe, dark, structured wines that are still tannic. |
| 2021 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2026 to 2034 | Spring frost and a cooler summer produced lighter, red-fruited, higher-acid wines that are charming but built for the near term. |
| 2020 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2025 to 2038 | A dry, early season gave an early harvest and fragrant, medium-bodied wines with fresher acidity that drink well young. |
| 2019 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2025 to 2042 | Heat spikes and drought were tempered by cool nights, producing rich, deeply flavored wines with firm structure and real drive. |
| 2018 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2023 to 2034 | A wet spring brought heavy mildew before a hot, dry summer, so quality swings widely depending on how much crop survived. |
| 2017 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2023 to 2038 | Spring frost and severe drought cut yields to very low levels, giving intensely concentrated, high-alcohol wines that need food and time. |
| 2016 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2022 to 2045 | An almost flawless season with cool nights and a dry harvest gave layered, perfumed, seamlessly balanced wines across the board. |
| 2015 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2021 to 2040 | A hot, dry summer with late rain to finish ripening produced dense, powerful wines with sweet tannins and a long life ahead. |
| 2014 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2019 to 2028 | September rain diluted a promising season, giving fresh, lighter, earlier-drinking wines that are pleasant but not for keeping. |
| 2013 | ★★☆☆☆ | drink | 2018 to 2027 | A cold, wet spring wrecked Grenache flowering and cut the crop drastically, leaving light, tart wines that need drinking now. |
| 2012 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2017 to 2032 | A dry summer with a cool finish made balanced, mid-weight wines with good fruit clarity but without the depth of the best years. |
| 2011 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2015 to 2027 | An early, warm season produced soft, forward, low-acid wines that were approachable from release and should now be finished. |
| 2010 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2017 to 2042 | Cool nights and a dry autumn combined ripeness with rare freshness, giving deeply structured wines that are still climbing. |
| 2009 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2014 to 2030 | A hot, dry summer made plush, high-alcohol, richly textured wines with softer acidity that are at their generous best now. |
| 2008 | ★★☆☆☆ | past | 2012 to 2022 | Persistent rain and mildew through the season gave dilute, herbal, fragile wines that were fading within a decade. |
| 2007 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2013 to 2038 | A relentless mistral kept the crop tiny and healthy, producing exceptionally concentrated, sweet-fruited Grenache with remarkable staying power. |
| 2006 | ★★★☆☆ | drink | 2011 to 2028 | A warm summer with a patchy harvest made soft, ripe, sweetly fruited wines with modest grip that are fully mature. |
| 2005 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2012 to 2035 | A dry year with real tannic backbone gave tightly wound, serious wines that were austere young and have opened into something complete. |
| 2004 | ★★★★☆ | drink | 2009 to 2028 | A cooler, classic season produced fresher, medium-bodied, aromatic wines that were often overlooked and are drinking very well. |
| 2003 | ★★★☆☆ | past | 2008 to 2024 | The heatwave delivered baked, high-alcohol, low-acid wines that impressed young for sheer size but have largely fallen apart. |
| 2002 | ★☆☆☆☆ | past | 2005 to 2010 | Catastrophic September flooding drowned the harvest, many estates bottled nothing, and the little that was made was thin and short. |
| 2001 | ★★★★★ | drink | 2008 to 2030 | A dry summer with a cool September gave structured, savory wines with unusually firm tannins that needed a decade and are excellent now. |
| 2000 | ★★★★☆ | past | 2005 to 2024 | A warm, even season made ripe, round, generous wines that drank well for two decades and are now mostly on the decline. |
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. 4 of these vintages are past their best by our reckoning, which is the column most charts quietly leave out.
Chateauneuf-du-Pape is a blend of up to thirteen permitted varieties on a plateau of galets in one of the hottest, windiest corners of the southern Rhone. That combination makes it unusually resilient: Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvedre ripen at different times, so a year that hurt one often left another intact, and a producer can blend around the damage.
The result is a chart with fewer disasters than Burgundy and fewer heroics than Barolo. What varies most is not whether the wine is good but what shape it takes: the hottest years give high alcohol and generous fruit that drinks early, cooler ones give tighter, more savory wines that need time.
Common questions
Most bottles are at their best between six and fifteen years, and the top cuvées from strong vintages run twenty or more. Grenache-dominant blends soften earlier than Mourvedre-heavy ones, so the house style shifts the window by several years in either direction.
No, this chart is for the reds, which are the overwhelming majority of production. The whites follow a different curve: excellent young, then often closed for several years, then re-emerging with age. Drink them either early or late rather than in between.
The appellation's minimum is already the highest in France, and the combination of southern heat, the mistral drying the grapes, and Grenache's natural sugar accumulation pushes many wines to 15 percent or beyond. In balanced years this reads as warmth rather than heat; in the hottest years it can dominate.
The large rounded stones absorb heat during the day and release it at night, extending ripening, and they also help retain moisture in the soil beneath. They are not universal across the appellation: several of the best sites have sandier soils that give lighter, more perfumed wines.
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.