Wine vintage rating 2009
2009 Great Bordeaux vintage for long-lived wines, often too young for optimal enjoyment. You should also experiment with simpler wineries to find the best drinking time, i.e. store a few 2009s and taste them one by one.
Perfect vintage in Burgundy.
Another very good champagne vintage. A very warm, dry vintage in northern Italy's Piedmont. The harvest began exceptionally early. In Tuscany the conditions were different - wet and cool for a long time, dry and warm again in midsummer with a rather cool September again.

Weather in the year 2009

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.