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All the great features you loved in VintageCharts+ are still available, now on two platforms! Our vintage charts will continue to be available at WineSp...

The free VintageChart+ web app has now been integrated into Wine Spectator Mobile at http://m.winespectator.com/ . It remains a free service for all of our ...

The wine world changes so rapidly that it's practically impossible to keep track of all the wines available. In restaurants and wine shops, you'll b...

The vintage score indicates the general quality of the wines on Wine Spectator's 100-point scale. A vintage that has been fully evaluated is given a sin...

A score range, rather than a single score, indicates preliminary analysis based on unfinished barrel samples or a limited sampling of bottled wines before m...

A "drink recommendation" suggests when most wines from the vintage will be at their best. These are general guidelines, not hard-and-fast rules. I...

"NYR" means most of the wines from the vintage have not yet been released; without sufficient evaluations based on blind tastings, we can not prov...

Wine Spectator's editors rate new vintages and provide updates on older vintages based on blind tastings and analysis of hundreds of wines from each regi...

We update each vintage chart at least once a year after we have tasted a sufficient number of wines from the latest vintage to provide a thorough, accurate ...

In most cases, we taste hundreds of wines before rating a vintage; at a minimum, for small subregions, we sample dozens of wines. For some wine types, blind...