Every one of the 187 producers Cruxvine scores carries a score for each of the 2015–2024 vintages — 1,870 scores in all. The region’s figure for a year is the median of those, so the years are comparable to each other rather than to a critic’s changing sample. Median of the medians: 87.
| Year | Vintage | Median | 90+ producers | Δ run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The 2015 vintage | 82 | 16 | −5 |
| 2016 | The 2016 vintage | 84 | 31 | −3 |
| 2017 | The 2017 vintage | 88 | 73 | +1 |
| 2018 | The 2018 vintage the best of the 2015–2024 | 90 | 103 | +3 |
| 2019 | The 2019 vintage | 87 | 49 | ±0 |
| 2020 | The 2020 vintage the smoke vintage | 79 | 3 | −8 |
| 2021 | The 2021 vintage | 89 | 91 | +2 |
| 2022 | The 2022 vintage | 85 | 36 | −2 |
| 2023 | The 2023 vintage | 84 | 30 | −3 |
| 2024 | The 2024 vintage | 87 | 59 | ±0 |
2018, at a median Crux Score of 90 across the 187 producers Cruxvine scores. The weakest is 2020 at 79. Every producer in the appellation is scored every year, so the years are comparable to each other rather than to a critic's changing sample.
2020, at a median of 79 — 11 points below 2018 and 10 below 2021. It is the smoke vintage: the August Complex fires. Cruxvine scores bottles that were released.
It does not score vintages directly. Each of the 187 producers carries a score for each of the 2015–2024 vintages, and the region's figure for a year is the median of those. Nothing is weighted by reputation or by production size.