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Champagne Vintage Flashcards

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Champagne

Excellent Vintages: 1980s

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1982, ‘85, ‘88, ‘89

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Champagne

Disaster Vintages: 1990s

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1991-‘94

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Champagne

Excellent Vintages: 1990s

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1990, ‘95-‘98

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Champagne

Disaster Vintages: 2000s

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2001, ‘03

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Champagne

Excellent Vintages: 2000s

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2002, ‘04, ‘08

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Champagne

Excellent Vintages: 2010s

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2012/13, ‘15

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1980 Champagne Vintage

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Poor Vintage

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1981 Champagne Vintage

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Poor Vintage

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1982 Champagne Vintage

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Legendary Vintage - rich, complex wines with plenty of structure

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1983 Champagne Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - overshadowed by the success of ‘82

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1984 Champagne Vintage

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Poor Vintage - Cold, wet and miserable

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1985 Champagne Vintage

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Legendary Vintage - Concentrated and balanced wines

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1986 Champagne Vintage

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Average Vintage - Variable quality
•Required draconian selection
•Rain and rot were serious issues

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1987 Champagne Vintage

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Poor Vintage - Rainy summer

•Grey rot issues

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1988 Champagne Vintage

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Legendary Trio of Vintages - Powerful, firm, classic wines

•Required more time than ‘89 or ‘90

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1989 Champagne Vintage

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Legendary Trio of Vintages - Forward, fleshy and seductive

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1990 Champagne Vintage

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Legendary Trio of Vintages - Harmonious, structured wines

•Warm summer resulted in a second crop

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1991 Champagne Vintage

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Poor Vintage - a NV-vintage

•Early frost and rain 10 days before harvest

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1992 Champagne Vintage

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Good year-Poor wines
•This was the first year that saw the implementation of measures to ensure that yields and the size of crops were curtailed
•Fruit was left on the vine or ground in many cases

*The measures were created for the semi-collapse of the market

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1993 Champagne Vintage

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Poor Vintage - Few vintage wines from draconian selection
•Excellent growing season, but the heavens opened and drenched the vineyards as harvest began and lasted until every last grape was in
•Louis Roederer rejected 50% of their harvest to make the top wine

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1994 Champagne Vintage

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Poor Vintage - copy-cat of 1993

•Rainy as hell during harvest

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1995 Champagne Vintage

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Legendary Vintage - Powerful, firm, classic wines

•Some issues of rot which may be the cause of pre-mature development

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1996 Champagne Vintage

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Legendary Vintage - Full and rich with an excellent backbone of acidity
•For both PN and Chard

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1997 Champagne Vintage

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Very Good Vintage - Many wines are still fresh and delicous, while others are surprisingly mature
•Spring frost and rain into an Indian summer

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1998 Champagne Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Quality was shunned initially but the vintage’s reputation has grown exponentially since release
•Bouts of heat waves and torrential rains

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1999 Champagne Vintage

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Good Vintage - Wines with low levels of acidity

•Gosset, Pol Roger and Krug did very well

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2000 Champagne Vintage

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Average Vintage - Overly ripe, lacking acidity or character

•A large number of producers could not resist the allure of the triple zero vintage tag

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2001 Champagne Vintage

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Disaster Vintage - Worst vintage in living memory

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2002 Champagne Vintage

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Legendary Vintage - Plush fruit with keen acidity

•Perfect gorwing season, capped by a dry harvest

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2003 Champagne Vintage

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Poor Vintage

•Sprint frost allowed the hot summer to produce small volumes of overripe wines

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2004 Champagne Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Well-balanced wines with very high yields have exceed expectations
•Similar to 1998 both in style and reputation

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2005 Champagne Vintage

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Average Vintage - Full, concentrated wines that don’t have the acidity to carry themselves

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2006 Champagne Vintage

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Very Good Vintage - Ripe wines with the freshness and finesse that was missing from the 2005s

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2007 Champagne Vintage

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Average Vintage - Chard outperformed Pinot; elevated acidity
•Warm spring with early flowering
•Rain all summer long

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2008 Champagne Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Fresh acidity and balanced ripeness
•Difficult, damp year with widespread mildew
•Saved by warm conditions before harvest

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2009 Champagne Vintage

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Good Vintage - Generous, fruity wines that lack the acidity for the long-haul

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2010 Champagne Vintage

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Average Vintage - Not vintage quality, but an excellent base for NV blends

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2011 Champagne Vintage

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Poor Vintage - Erratic weather and problematic harvest

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2012 Champagne Vintage

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Legendary Vintage - Balanced wines with harmonious acidity
•Best Pinot vintage since 1952
•Hail - low yields

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2013 Champagne Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Similar to 1988

•Chardonnay was king

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2014 Champagne Vintage

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Very Good - Initial reports suggest balanced fruit
•Damp, cool August
•Saved by warm, dry September

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2015 Champagne Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Initial reports indicate richness will be the main character of the vintage, with Pinot Noir fairing particularly well
•Rain the final week of harvest, but many of the grapes were already in

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