Vintage Weather

Burgundy

Temperature

Cold → Hot

Year	Temperature	Events	Read
2025	Warm	Frost, Hail, Heat spike, Low yield	Two heatwaves and an 18 August start gave a small, healthy, cellar-worthy year.
2024	Cold	Hail, Mildew / rot, Low yield	Relentless rain, mildew, and hail made a scarce but classic, perfumed cool-year vintage.
2023	Warm	Heat spike, Mildew / rot	The largest harvest ever, capped by a September heatwave, made charming, ripe wines.
2022	Hot	Heat spike, Drought	A hot, dry year rescued by June rain made perfumed, elegant, fresh wines.
2021	Cold	Frost, Mildew / rot, Low yield	Catastrophic April frost and a cool wet summer made a scarce but elegant vintage.
2020	Hot	Drought, Heat spike, Low yield	The hottest, driest year yet produced surprisingly fresh, deeply colored wines.
2019	Warm	Frost, Heat spike, Drought, Low yield	A dry, warm year with frost and heat spikes made deeply concentrated, balanced wines.
2018	Hot	Drought, Heat spike	One of the hottest, driest years made rich, plush, generous, early-picked wines.
2017	Warm	Frost	Frost hit Chablis but a warm, dry, disease-free season made plentiful, charming wines.
2016	Average	Frost, Mildew / rot, Low yield	The worst frost since 1981 devastated yields but ideal ripening made fresh, elegant wines.
2015	Hot	Heat spike, Harvest rain, Low yield	Brutal July heat made rich, deeply structured reds ranked among the best since 2005.
2014	Average	Hail, Low yield	A June hailstorm hurt Beaune, but ideal September made elegant, fresh wines.
2013	Cool	Hail, Low yield	Relentless cold, rain, and catastrophic hail made a scarce, light, high-acid vintage.
2012	Average	Hail, Mildew / rot, Low yield	Repeated hail and mildew crushed yields, but a warm late summer made soft, ripe wines.
2011	Warm	Heat spike, Hail, Low yield	A hot spring and July hailstorm made an early, charming, fruit-forward vintage.
2010	Cold	Frost, Hail, Low yield	Extreme cold and a damp summer made one of Burgundy's purest, most classic vintages.
2009	Hot	Heat spike	A glorious August heatwave made rich, opulent, low-acid, immediately seductive wines.
2008	Cool	Hail, Botrytis, Low yield	Persistent rain and a July hailstorm made a lean, high-acid, mineral vintage.
2007	Cool	Mildew / rot, Botrytis, Low yield	A cool, damp summer rescued by a late August wind made fragrant, light reds.
2006	Average	Hail, Botrytis	Hot July, wet rotten August, then a warm September made a highly variable year.
2005	Warm	Drought, Hail, Low yield	Drought-driven concentration made one of Burgundy's most benchmark modern reds.
2004	Cool	Hail, Mildew / rot	Hail and mildew hurt reds, which developed a controversial green character; whites shone.
2003	Hot	Frost, Heat spike, Drought, Low yield	A catastrophic heatwave made the earliest harvest since 1893 and record-low acidity.
2002	Warm	Drought	A dry, warm summer cooled by a September north wind made pure, elegant reds.
2001	Cool	Hail, Low yield	A cool, wet, hail-hit season made trim, fresh reds with firmer tannins than 2000.
2000	Average	Hail, Harvest rain	July rain and a September storm made a modest, variable, fruity vintage.
1999	Warm	Harvest rain	A huge, healthy crop and hot dry summer made rich reds with silky, ripe tannins.
1998	Warm	Frost, Mildew / rot, Heat spike, Low yield	Frost, oidium, and heat made deeply colored, tannic reds and weak whites.
1997	Warm	Harvest rain, Low yield	Coulure cut the crop; a hot August made charming, succulent, lower-acid wines.
1996	Cool		Very high natural acidity defined both the age-worthy reds and premox-troubled whites.