French Wine Vintage Charts & Harvest Reports

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By Andrew Jefford

Last updated: January 31, 2023.

The 2022 vintage will be available in April 2024.

The vintage charts and harvest reports provided by the Wine Scholar Guild give you the ranking for main French wine regions and vintage from 2000 to today. Andrew Jefford, award-winning wine journalist and WSG Academic Advisor has compiled this information and written the vintage charts starting with the 2013 vintage.

Northern France

For a quick overview of the recent vintages in the Northern wine regions of France, please use the vintage charts below. 

More detailed vintage charts, including details on the growing seasons, harvest conditions style and character of the wines are avaiable for Alsace, Champagne, Loire, and Bourgogne. You can read about the growing season in Alsace and learn if Riesling and Pinot Gris were particularly successful. 

You can also read about white and red wines from the Loire and know which vintage of Muscadet, Sancerre, Anjou and Chinon was outstanding or challenging. Andrew Jefford is also providing a detailed Bourgogne vintage report with a focus on the wines and vintages of Chablis, Côte de Beaune, Côte de Nuits and Mâconnais.

Vintage Alsace Champagne Loire
Dry whites
& reds
Chablis Côte de Beaune
whites
Côte de Beaune
Côte de Nuits
reds
Mâconnais
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000

Southern France

For a quick overview of the recent vintages in the Southern wine regions of France, please use the vintage charts below. 

More detailed vintage charts, including details on the growing seasons, harvest conditions style and character of the wines are avaiable for Beaujolais, Rhône, Provence, Languedoc-Roussillon, Bordeaux and Sauternes. 

You can read about the growing season in Northern Rhône and the Southern Rhône and how it impacted the vintage for Crus like Cornas, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage and Condrieu as well as for appelations and wines crafted from Grenache and Mourvèdre in the Southern Rhône. 

The Bordeaux vintage chart covers all the important Bordeaux appellations: Médoc, Graves, Pomerol, St. Emilion and Sauternes. It serves as a great source of information regarding Cabernet-based and Merlot-based reds and which are meant for early drinking vs. cellaring. 

And if you love Gamay and wonder about vintage Beaujolais, we identified vintages meant for early drinking and those best stashed in the cellar, like the Crus of Moulin à Vent & Morgon, to let them “pinote” or become Pinot Noir-like.

Vintage Beaujolais Northern
Rhône
Southern
Rhône
Provence Languedoc-
Roussillon
Médoc
Graves
St.-Emilion
Pomerol
Sauternes
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2012
2011
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2000
Quality Chart Legend
Poor
Poor to Fair
Fair
Fair to Good
Good
Good to Excellent
Excellent
Excellent to Exceptional
Exceptional
These vintage notes have been prepared by Andrew Jefford, Academic Advisor to the Wine Scholar Guild. New vintage information, and any revisions of previous vintage drinking suggestions, are made each autumn. Use the charts as a guide only; in every vintage there will be outperforming and underperforming wines.

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