Non/Multi-Vintage Wines.
On occasion, wine makers will blend wines from lots from different vintages. These wines are designated as Non-Vintage or Multi-Vintage wines. Why do they do it? More often it is not a stylistic inclination or inspiration but pragmatics and economics that dictate the decisions to make such blends. The rarer occurrence is that the winemaker has decided to blend wine lots from different vintages to create a premeditated wine benefiting from the qualities of the component wines. Oftentimes, the winemaker will have wine left from a larger lot or a wine that was not ready to bottle in the previous year. Multi vintage wines are also created when one wine or blend is not up to the wine maker's standard and blending in a wine from another vintage improves the final blend.
This is not a negative by any means. There are numerous non- or multi- vintage wines we have tasted that were great wines. Wine is a product and the wine industry is a business. If you have leftover raw materials there is nothing preventing you from making a quality finished product. There is also nothing preventing the winemaker from making a quality wine.
Non-Vinatage Chardonnay, Cottonwood Canyon 93 Points
2000-2001 Cottonwood Canyon Synthesis 91 Points
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