What does it mean for a year to be “a good year” for wine, and how does it affect the taste? Also how can one know what years are “good years”?

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What does it mean for a year to be “a good year” for wine, and how does it affect the taste? Also how can one know what years are “good years”?

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Answer 1

A “good year” wine is a fairly arbitrary choice. Each year a wine maker’s wine may be a little different, or big different than the year before, depending on weather, grapes, how they make they wine, lots of stuff. Some winemakers go out of their way to try to have all of their wines always taste the same every year (such as some champagne makers), others will vary each year in slight ways.

A “good year” is just someone commenting that a particular wine (or wine region) produced particularly good wine that year.