Chinon wine comes from the vineyards around the town of Chinon in Touraine. Unusually for the Loire Valley, it is mostly red wine, with 2–5% rosé and a little white wine.
From the Wikipedia article Chinon AOC, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chinon is an appellation in Loire, France. Its rules allow Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc. We track 110 of its wines in stock at 56 shops, from 20 wine houses, from € 9.50; mostly red, white.
- Country
- France
- Region
- Loire
- Grapes allowed
- Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc
- In our wines
- Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc, Pinot Noir
- Styles
- Red 81 · White 15 · Rosé 2 · Sparkling 1
- Prices
- from € 9.50 · median € 25.95 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotdryso far +5.3 °C · 2,142 GDD · 27 % rain |
| 2025 | 1 | € 17.90 | € 17.90 | – | hotdry +1.9 °C · 1,678 GDD · 39 % rain |
| 2024 | 13 | € 17.13 | € 23.42 | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,331 GDD · 124 % rain |
| 2023 | 16 | € 11.55 | € 24.08 | – | hot +2.2 °C · 1,736 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 2022 | 13 | € 20.00 | € 24.95 | – | hotdry +2.8 °C · 1,876 GDD · 62 % rain |
| 2021 | 14 | € 15.00 | € 29.28 | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,278 GDD · 82 % rain |
| 2020 | 12 | € 9.50 | € 23.21 | – | warm +0.7 °C · 1,412 GDD · 96 % rain |
| 2019 | 9 | € 11.83 | € 33.00 | – | warm +0.9 °C · 1,464 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 2018 | 7 | € 15.95 | € 24.80 | – | hotdry harvest +1.4 °C · 1,567 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 2017 | 2 | € 28.77 | € 31.78 | – | warm +0.8 °C · 1,446 GDD · 81 % rain |
| 2016 | 6 | € 34.79 | € 46.83 | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,277 GDD · 75 % rain |
| 2015 | 4 | € 36.79 | € 45.49 | – | averagewet harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,274 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 2014 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.1 °C · 1,280 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 2013 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.5 °C · 1,182 GDD · 108 % rain |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | coolwet −0.5 °C · 1,198 GDD · 135 % rain |
| 2011 | – | – | – | – | average +0.4 °C · 1,354 GDD · 77 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | cooldry −0.5 °C · 1,153 GDD · 70 % rain |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,275 GDD · 87 % rain |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.3 °C · 1,022 GDD · 112 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.7 °C · 1,113 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | hotwet harvest +1.0 °C · 1,480 GDD · 109 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.9 °C · 1,461 GDD · 78 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.3 °C · 1,202 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.5 °C · 1,362 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.1 °C · 1,029 GDD · 109 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.8 °C · 1,138 GDD · 121 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | coolwet −0.7 °C · 1,124 GDD · 131 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | averagewetwet harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,275 GDD · 150 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.6 °C · 1,161 GDD · 123 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.1 °C · 1,291 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 1,113 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | averagedry +0.2 °C · 1,319 GDD · 67 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,278 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.9 °C · 1,077 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | average +0.1 °C · 1,311 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.5 °C · 1,382 GDD · 67 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | hotdrydry harvest +1.4 °C · 1,590 GDD · 47 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | hotdrydry harvest +1.2 °C · 1,562 GDD · 66 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,196 GDD · 82 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,270 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.1 °C · 1,140 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | colddry harvest −1.2 °C · 1,024 GDD · 79 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.2 °C · 1,007 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | coolwet −0.7 °C · 1,141 GDD · 135 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.6 °C · 1,176 GDD · 115 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Chinon'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.
Domaine Charles Joguet 19 · Bernard Baudry 10 · Domaine de Pallus 9 · Château de Coulaine 8 · Domaine Philippe Alliet 8 · Olga Raffault 6 · Domaine de la Noblaie 3 · Domaine Wilfrid Rousse 2 · Marc Brédif 2 · Domaine des Bernard 2 · Patrick Lambert 1 · Bio-dynamisch 1 · Catherine & Pierre Breton 1 · Domaine Breton 1 · Domaine Fabrice Gasnier 1 · Domaine Grosbois 1