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. Most champagne is nonvintage. Michael edwards may 22 2016 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007. But for champagne 2010 was truly a terrible time. Nonetheless dom perignon just released a vintage from the unspeakable year that s surprisingly a winner.

Still tannic youthful or slow to mature. 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. Hopes are high that the generous ripeness of the raw material will translate into single vintage releases in due course. Very tricky conditions with a warm humid autumn facilitating widespread grey rot throughout the region.

Few vintage champagnes are likely to be made. 2010 a very difficult vintage with prominent rot. 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. Few vintage champagnes are likely to be made.

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. Instead grapes from various years are blended to create a consistent flavor. Dom pérignon vintage 2010 is a wager that has been won thanks to inspiration and to the mastery that comes from experience.

2018 was a bumper year for champagne with ample yields to compensate for the smaller 2017 vintage. This summer dom pérignon became the first major house to release a 2010 vintage. In france 2010 is a vintage that produced so many sensational wines bordeaux burgundy even north and south rhône were on the same page but in champagne very few houses declared a vintage. The blending and the talent of the winemakers are the key elements to produce champagne at its best in 2010 says rapeneau.

As kristen shirley at bloomberg notes. The reason was that on august 15 and 16 the region had the equivalent of two months of rain. The wine advocate vintage guide. The passage of time has revealed the grandeur of this vintage of which dom pérignon.

2010 wasn t one of those years. 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.