Appellation

Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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About Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a French wine, an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) located around the village of Châteauneuf-du-Pape in the Rhône wine region in southeastern France. It is one of the most renowned appellations of the southern part of the Rhône Valley, and its vineyards are located around Châteauneuf-du-Pape and in neighboring villages, Bédarrides, Courthézon and Sorgues, between Avignon and Orange. They cover slightly more than 3,200 hectares or 7,900 acres (32 km2) and produce over 110,000 hectolitres of wine a year, with more wine made in this one area of the southern Rhône than in all of the northern Rhône.

From the Wikipedia article Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Châteauneuf-du-Pape is an appellation in Rhône, France. We track 629 of its wines in stock at 127 shops, from 97 wine houses, from € 16.90; mostly red, white.

At a glance
Country
France
Region
Rhône
In our wines
Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah, Cinsault, Clairette
Styles
Red 467 · White 106
Prices
from € 16.90 · median € 66.77 / 75 cl

Vintages

per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote
VintageWinesFromMedian / 75 clCritics' scoreGrowing season
2026––––hotdryso far +4.6 °C · 2,570 GDD · 27 % rain
202511€ 26.63€ 38.89–hotdrydry harvest +2.2 °C · 2,339 GDD · 33 % rain
202426€ 26.63€ 48.8396.0 (1 wine)hot +1.1 °C · 2,107 GDD · 95 % rain
202385€ 20.06€ 54.0094.9 (10 wines)hot +2.2 °C · 2,339 GDD · 73 % rain
202286€ 33.32€ 62.9493.9 (10 wines)hotdry +2.9 °C · 2,490 GDD · 56 % rain
202186€ 16.90€ 65.6693.5 (4 wines)average ±0.0 °C · 1,868 GDD · 104 % rain
202066€ 28.90€ 74.9294.8 (6 wines)average +0.4 °C · 1,951 GDD · 84 % rain
201949€ 28.80€ 80.1595.0 (5 wines)hot +1.0 °C · 2,076 GDD · 94 % rain
201827€ 30.80€ 66.7795.8 (4 wines)hotdry harvest +1.4 °C · 2,161 GDD · 128 % rain
201726€ 37.33€ 92.5096.0 (4 wines)warmdrydry harvest +0.7 °C · 2,018 GDD · 45 % rain
201615€ 36.90€ 113.0097.5 (4 wines)average +0.1 °C · 1,883 GDD · 80 % rain
201519€ 44.87€ 106.3796.6 (5 wines)average +0.3 °C · 1,926 GDD · 99 % rain
20143€ 39.90€ 61.5597.0 (1 wine)average −0.1 °C · 1,838 GDD · 98 % rain
20134€ 37.33€ 117.74–cool −0.6 °C · 1,742 GDD · 100 % rain
201214€ 53.38€ 98.8696.0 (4 wines)average +0.1 °C · 1,886 GDD · 116 % rain
20112€ 160.43€ 160.4397.5 (2 wines)warmdry harvest +0.5 °C · 1,963 GDD · 76 % rain
20107€ 98.11€ 179.4799.0 (1 wine)cool −0.8 °C · 1,684 GDD · 103 % rain
20095€ 75.00€ 173.8199.0 (3 wines)warm +0.6 °C · 1,998 GDD · 103 % rain
20082€ 133.67€ 153.8196.0 (1 wine)coolwet −0.8 °C · 1,694 GDD · 138 % rain
20072€ 869.73€ 1,309.87–average ±0.0 °C · 1,860 GDD · 79 % rain
20065€ 92.13€ 106.9198.0 (1 wine)warmwet harvest +0.9 °C · 2,049 GDD · 85 % rain
20053€ 58.63€ 117.61–averagewet harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,874 GDD · 111 % rain
20042€ 83.16€ 111.58–averagedry harvest +0.1 °C · 1,885 GDD · 74 % rain
20034€ 65.81€ 111.9097.0 (2 wines)hotdry +1.5 °C · 2,193 GDD · 70 % rain
2002––––average −0.4 °C · 1,776 GDD · 110 % rain
20011€ 394.84€ 394.84–average −0.1 °C · 1,844 GDD · 79 % rain
2000––––average −0.3 °C · 1,805 GDD · 113 % rain
1999––––average +0.1 °C · 1,895 GDD · 120 % rain
19981€ 144.00€ 144.00–cool −0.7 °C · 1,724 GDD · 116 % rain
1997––––averagedry harvest −0.1 °C · 1,838 GDD · 78 % rain
1996––––cold −1.6 °C · 1,517 GDD · 107 % rain
1995––––cool −0.6 °C · 1,737 GDD · 107 % rain
1994––––averagewetwet harvest −0.1 °C · 1,857 GDD · 139 % rain
19931€ 110.00€ 110.00–coolwetwet harvest −0.7 °C · 1,716 GDD · 149 % rain
1992––––cool −0.7 °C · 1,720 GDD · 118 % rain
1991––––average −0.3 °C · 1,804 GDD · 75 % rain
1990––––averagedry harvest +0.3 °C · 1,935 GDD · 78 % rain
1989––––averagedrydry harvest +0.1 °C · 1,885 GDD · 53 % rain
1988––––cool −0.6 °C · 1,749 GDD · 115 % rain
1987––––coolwetdry harvest −0.6 °C · 1,745 GDD · 131 % rain
1986––––average −0.4 °C · 1,815 GDD · 95 % rain
1985––––cooldrydry harvest −0.5 °C · 1,756 GDD · 70 % rain
1984––––cold −2.1 °C · 1,424 GDD · 106 % rain
1983––––cooldry harvest −0.7 °C · 1,720 GDD · 101 % rain
1982––––average −0.2 °C · 1,819 GDD · 105 % rain

Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Châteauneuf-du-Pape's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the appellation. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.

Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.