Vintages
Images are illustrations of each crop under the chamber’s light.
The great wine years
Wine-grape seasons whose standing is published critical consensus.
Chardonnay 2008
Le Mesnil-sur-Oger · Côte des Blancs, Champagne
The cool, late year Champagne still measures itself against.
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Pinot Noir 2002
Verzenay · Montagne de Reims, Champagne
The warm, generous vintage nearly every house declared.
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Pinot Noir 2005
Vosne-Romanée · Côte de Nuits, Burgundy
The year Burgundy critics keep returning to.
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Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
Pauillac · Médoc, Bordeaux
Bordeaux's dry, cool-nighted classic.
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Nebbiolo 2010
Barolo · Langhe, Piedmont
The Barolo vintage of a generation.
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Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
Oakville · Napa Valley, California
Napa's warm, even, near-perfect drought year.
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Our selections
Crops with no vintage charts. Each year ranked first of every season from 1990 to 2024 in its place, on the recorded weather.
San Marzano tomatoes 1994
Sarno · Agro Sarnese-Nocerino, Campania
Volcanic soil and a bone-dry ripening.
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Carrots 2018
Créances · Cotentin coast, Normandy
Sand, sea air, and a long warm autumn.
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Strawberries 2022
Plougastel-Daoulas · Rade de Brest, Brittany
Brittany's strawberry peninsula, in a mild, dry spring.
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Wasabi 1990
Amagi, Izu Peninsula · Shizuoka
Spring water, terraced stone, a full year.
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Espelette peppers 2001
Espelette · Pays Basque
A long, even Basque summer.
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Basil 2007
Pra' · Genoa, Liguria
The terraces above Genoa, in a bright, settled spring.
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