Vintage Weather
Australia
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Temperature
Cold → Hot
✓Verified against primary sources
| Year | Temperature | Events | Read | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | No weather read | Frost, Heat spike, Low yield | Late frosts, heat and inland flooding met the smallest crush since 2000. | Verified |
| 2025 | No weather read | Frost | Spring frost and dry conditions cut yields in a red-led rebound year. | Verified |
| 2024 | No weather read | A 9 per cent rebound that was still a small, white-led vintage. | Verified | |
| 2023 | Cool | Low yield | A third La Nina gave the smallest crush since 2000 and fine flavour. | Verified |
| 2022 | Cool | Frost, Hail | A wet La Nina spring and hail cut crops, then a cool summer gave slow ripening. | Verified |
| 2021 | Cool | Frost, Hail | Australia's coolest season in 10 years ended in its largest crush on record. | Verified |
| 2019 | Hot | Heat spike, Drought, Low yield | A hot, fast vintage with an early harvest for many and fires in several states. | Verified |
| 2018 | No weather read | Frost, Hail, Heat spike, Low yield | Heat spikes in the southeast, a November frost and a crush down 10 percent on 2017. | Verified |
| 2017 | No weather read | A larger crush, with a cool, wet, late season in many SA and Victorian regions. | Verified | |
| 2016 | No weather read | Heat spike, Drought, Harvest rain, Low yield | A dry, early year in much of the south, while January rain hit the Hunter Valley. | Verified |
| 2015 | No weather read | Frost, Smoke, Harvest rain | A wet spring cut crops in places, then a warm summer brought an early harvest. | Verified |
| 2014 | No weather read | Frost, Hail, Heat spike, Harvest rain | Frost, heat records and a February deluge tested growers; reports praised fruit quality. | Verified |
| 2013 | Hot | Heat spike | Record summer heat brought an early, condensed harvest and the biggest crush since 2008. | Verified |
| 2012 | No weather read | The WFA called 2012 a standout for quality on a 1.66 million tonne crush. | Verified | |
| 2010 | No weather read | Frost, Hail, Heat spike, Harvest rain, Low yield | Good winter rain and November flowering heat preceded an early, easier harvest. | Verified |
| 2009 | No weather read | Heat spike, Hail, Drought, Low yield | A two-week heatwave and Victorian bushfires cut Australia's 2009 crop. | Verified |
| 2008 | No weather read | Heat spike, Harvest rain | An early start kept most of the crop ahead of a record March heatwave in the Barossa. | Verified |
| 2007 | No weather read | Drought, Frost, Harvest rain, Smoke, Low yield | Drought, frost and smoke taint cut the national crush by just over a quarter. | Verified |
| 2006 | No weather read | Heat spike, Harvest rain, Low yield | Picked early with lower yields in most places; Western Australia was cool and wet. | Verified |
| 2005 | Cool | Hail, Heat spike | A mild season with well-timed rain, a record crush and a heat-compressed Barossa finish. | Verified |
| 2004 | No weather read | Heat spike | Good winter rains, a dry, warm, stable season and a record 1.86 million tonne crush. | Verified |
| 2003 | No weather read | Drought, Heat spike, Harvest rain, Mildew / rot, Low yield | Drought cut the crush 10 percent; rain arrived as harvest began in late February. | Verified |
| 2002 | Cool | A cool, low-rain season gave a record crush and outstanding quality. | Verified | |
| 2001 | Hot | Heat spike, Harvest rain | Reds overtook whites for the first time as a hot summer met rain-fed vines. | Verified |
| 1999 | No weather read | Frost, Harvest rain, Botrytis | Frost and heavy late rain made 1999 difficult, yet the crush topped a million tonnes. | Verified |
| 1998 | No weather read | Heat spike, Harvest rain | A dry, early season that ended in a record crush and a great red vintage. | Verified |
| 1997 | No weather read | Heat spike, Frost, Harvest rain, Low yield | February heat cut yields; a cooler March and warm April rescued several regions. | Verified |
| 1996 | Cool | A cool, late season that ended in a record 885,000-tonne crush. | Verified | |
| 1994 | No weather read | Frost, Hail, Heat spike | A dry, cool summer for most regions, with heat and bushfires in the Upper Hunter. | Verified |
| 1991 | Warm | A warm start and a classic dry summer brought an early vintage of textbook reds. | Verified |