Wine vintage rating 2002
2002 Wines with less density and power, but still good and, above all, easy to drink. The year was quite cool and not very sunny, so the grape harvest was delayed a little longer and the grapes had to be carefully selected. The really great Pauillac wines got along very well with it: Latour and Lafite and Mouton Rothschild.
2002 was an excellent vintage in Burgundy.
A very good late summer in Champagne resulted in healthy, aromatically perfect grapes and an excellent vintage for champagne.

Weather in the year 2002

Good filling levels, good wine quality
Of course, the good condition of a wine from an old vintage depends on excellent storage. Above all, the wine must not have frequently changed cellars. Ideally, the wine will have rested in one and the same wine cellar.
But also the cork that sits in each individual bottle is very important. A perfect cork has few pores and keeps the wine stable. If an inferior cork happens to have been used in a bottle, the porous surface will begin to soak up wine and allow micro-quantities of the liquid to evaporate over the decades. Poor fill levels are the result.
A poor fill level therefore also indicates a high risk that the wine bottle could soon begin to leak.
The fill levels explained:
In the bottle neck (high fill to base neck) about 2 cm is perfect for wines.
Top and upper shoulder, ([very] top shoulder), approx. 3 cm is very good for very old wines.
Medium shoulder (mid shoulder), about 4 cm is only acceptable for rare top wines and in individual cases.
Everything below the red line should not be offered any more.