2010 Champagne Vintage Report

A first look at vintage quality in french wine regions with eyewitness reports from growers and winemakers.

2010 champagne vintage report.

Instead grapes from various years are blended to create a consistent flavor. 2018 was a bumper year for champagne with ample yields to compensate for the smaller 2017 vintage. Dom pérignon vintage 2010 is a wager that has been won thanks to inspiration and to the mastery that comes from experience. But for champagne 2010 was truly a terrible time.

2009 terry theise states that the 2009 vintage wines are quite adamant and sometimes even heavy recalling the young 99s another vintage marked by yellow fruit and which seemed rather vulgar on first. The blending and the talent of the winemakers are the key elements to produce champagne at its best in 2010 says rapeneau. Hopes are high that the generous ripeness of the raw material will translate into single vintage releases in due course. Andrew jefford award winning wine journalist for decanter magazine and author of twelve books on wine including the new france has compiled information and written the vintage charts.

Few vintage champagnes are likely to be made. Nonetheless dom perignon just released a vintage from the unspeakable year that s surprisingly a winner. The vintage chart and harvest reports provided by the wine scholar guild gives you the ranking for every french wine region and vintage from 2000 to today. Michael edwards may 22 2016 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007.

Few vintage champagnes are likely to be made. 2010 wasn t one of those years. 1970 2019 download pdf rating ranges 96 100. The passage of time has revealed the grandeur of this vintage of which dom pérignon.

See decanter s vintage ratings for champagne with vintages back to 199 revised and updated by leading champagne expert and author michael edwards in 2018. In the best years vintners will sometimes release a wine using only grapes from a singular superior harvest. This summer dom pérignon became the first major house to release a 2010 vintage. As kristen shirley at bloomberg notes.

Very tricky conditions with a warm humid autumn facilitating widespread grey rot throughout the region. The reason was that on august 15 and 16 the region had the equivalent of two months of rain. How dom pérignon made a vintage in 2010 when many didn t. Most champagne is nonvintage.

Dom pérignon vintage 2010 was a bold wager the fruit of an unwavering commitment to expressing nature coupled with the freedom that makes audacious endeavors possible. 2010 a very difficult vintage with prominent rot.