Vintages
Drink, hold, or be careful.
Last fifteen years. Floor-staff calls, not scores. A modest year from a good grower beats a legend year from a lazy one.
- Drink
Open it. Waiting rarely helps.
- Hold
Too young for the typical bottle. Cellar it.
- Careful
Uneven or weak. Buy a grower, not the year — or drink up what you have.
Côte d’Or
Burgundy
Tiny plots, wild weather, prices that punish a lazy year. Grower matters more than the number on the bottle.
Reds unless the note says otherwise. 2014 whites were the story. Village wine and Grand Cru from the same year can disagree.
| Year | Call | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Hold | Small, promising, in barrel. Early talk of 2020/22 fruit with more line. |
| 2024 | Careful | Wet and tiny. Buy the grower, not the vintage. |
| 2023 | Drink | Generous and earlier. Village reds can be opened. |
| 2022 | Hold | Warm, ripe, small. Wait on premiers and above. |
| 2021 | Careful | Frost, rain, uneven reds. Tiny and dear. Be picky. |
| 2020 | Drink | Early harvest, charm. Many village bottles already sing. |
| 2019 | Hold | Density plus freshness. A keeper if you have it. |
| 2018 | Drink | Hot, opulent, some high alcohol. Open them. |
| 2017 | Drink | Generous and early. Drinking now. |
| 2016 | Hold | Frost, then greatness. Structured. Still climbing. |
| 2015 | Drink | Sunny Pinot, open and giving. |
| 2014 | Drink | Reds are lean; the whites were the vintage. Many at peak. |
| 2013 | Careful | Hail and scramble. Drink remaining village. |
| 2012 | Drink | Small crop, concentrated. Ready. |
| 2011 | Drink | Light and pretty. Do not cellar further. |