How to check how a vintage turned out

Most wine regions we cover have a vintage chart — how each year’s growing season went, how the wines turned out, and how that year rated for each grape. You can read it on a wine’s page at app.invintory.com, or ask Vincent from any device.

Note

📍 A vintage score is a regional average, not a verdict on your bottle. The app prints the caveat beside the score itself: “A regional average for this grape and vintage. An individual producer can sit well above or below it — the best estates still make fine wine in difficult years.”

Read a wine’s vintage score on the web

1. At app.invintory.com, click the bottle to open its panel — or open its Wine guide.
2. Find Vintage score. It carries the grade, the word behind it, a Growing season line and a The wines line — plus What happened that year on landmark vintages.
3. Click All vintages for the region’s whole chart.

The section only appears where we hold a chart covering that wine’s region and its grape, which is a minority of wines. There is no placeholder when we do not — the section is simply absent.

app.invintory.com → a wine → Wine guide → Vintage score → All vintages

What the grades mean

Grade	Means
A+	Legendary
A	Excellent
B	Good
C	Average
D	Weak

The whole chart

The chart names the region and the grape it covers at the top, then lays the years out as tiles grouped by decade, newest first, five to a row. Each tile shows the year and its grade, and a decade holding top-graded years says how many — 3 outstanding and the like.

Click any year to open its write-up underneath. If you came from a wine you own, that vintage is marked, opens expanded, and is tagged Yours.

Or just ask Vincent

Vincent reads the same chart, so this works wherever you can reach Vincent. Try “How was 2015 in Barolo?”, “Which recent Bordeaux years should I buy?”, or “which vintages in my cellar came from strong years” — that last one reads your own bottles against the chart.

Two things worth knowing. Where we hold no chart for the place you named, Vincent tells you so rather than inventing a rating. And where the place you named is narrower than the chart — a commune inside a larger appellation — Vincent answers from the appellation and names which region it is describing.

Next steps

• How to use the Wine Guide — every other section on a wine’s page
• How to view critic ratings and reviews — the other kind of score, on the individual wine rather than the year
• Meet Vincent, your AI wine assistant — what Vincent can see, and how to reach it