Vintage Weather
Port & Douro
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Temperature
Cold → Hot
✓Verified against primary sources
| Year | Temperature | Events | Read | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Hot | Heat spike, Drought, Low yield | Portugal's hottest, driest summer in 94 years cut volumes but not quality. | Verified |
| 2024 | Warm | Low yield | A warm summer and cool harvest gave the first general declaration since 2017. | Verified |
| 2023 | Average | Hail, Mildew / rot, Heat spike, Harvest rain | An early, generous harvest broken in two by heavy September rain. | Verified |
| 2022 | Hot | Drought, Heat spike, Harvest rain, Low yield | Severe drought and record July heat, an early start and yields 20 percent below average. | Verified |
| 2021 | Cool | Hail, Harvest rain | A cool year with June hail and three harvest rains gave fresh, well-colored wines. | Verified |
| 2020 | Hot | Heat spike, Low yield | Record July heat and a rainless early summer gave an early, very small Douro harvest. | Verified |
| 2019 | Cool | Harvest rain | A dry, cool summer and well-timed rain gave fresh, lively wines. | Verified |
| 2017 | Hot | Frost, Hail, Heat spike, Drought, Low yield | A very dry, warm Douro year brought record-early picking and tiny yields. | Verified |
| 2016 | Warm | Low yield | A wet winter and spring, a hot summer, then patient picking after September rain. | Verified |
| 2015 | Warm | Drought, Harvest rain, Low yield | A hot, dry Douro spring, a cool summer and well-timed September rain. | Verified |
| 2013 | No weather read | Drought, Harvest rain | Wet winter, rainless summer, then rain from 27 September split a late harvest. | Verified |
| 2011 | Warm | Hail, Heat spike, Drought, Mildew / rot, Low yield | A dry Douro year with a June heat spike, rescued by late August rain. | Verified |
| 2009 | Warm | Heat spike, Drought, Harvest rain, Low yield | A third dry year brought August heat, early picking and reduced yields. | Verified |
| 2008 | Cool | Drought, Harvest rain, Mildew / rot, Low yield | A cool, dry Douro year with late flowering, lower yields and a late, calm harvest. | Verified |
| 2007 | Cool | Heat spike, Low yield | A cool, unsettled Douro summer was saved by a dry August and September heat. | Verified |
| 2004 | No weather read | Drought, Heat spike | A very dry start, then the wettest August in 104 years and sunshine for picking. | Verified |
| 2003 | Hot | Heat spike | A wet winter and well-timed rain carried the Douro through the 2003 heatwave. | Verified |
| 2001 | No weather read | A very wet winter, then little rain from April to August and a large crop. | Verified | |
| 2000 | No weather read | Low yield | A wet spring cut fruit set; a dry summer gave a tiny crop of concentrated wines. | Verified |
| 1999 | No weather read | Harvest rain | A favorable season was undone by intermittent rain in late September. | Not yet verified |
| 1998 | Hot | Harvest rain, Heat spike, Low yield, Mildew / rot | Mildew cut yields, then extreme heat and harvest rain made a mixed year. | Not yet verified |
| 1997 | No weather read | Snow, an early bud burst, and late-August rain framed a balanced season. | Not yet verified | |
| 1995 | Hot | Heat spike | Four weeks of furnace-like August heat pushed sugars to record levels. | Not yet verified |
| 1994 | Warm | Hail, Low yield | Hail and poor flowering slashed yields before a warm, dry summer. | Not yet verified |
| 1992 | Warm | A long hot summer and late rain gave low yields and tannic structure. | Not yet verified | |
| 1991 | Warm | Drought | A hot dry summer after heavy winter rain gave small, concentrated berries. | Not yet verified |
| 1988 | Hot | Drought, Heat spike, Low yield | No rain and near-27C heat caused 50 to 70 percent crop losses. | Not yet verified |
| 1987 | Warm | Drought | A hot, dry summer ripened fruit fully without deep extraction or power. | Not yet verified |
| 1985 | Warm | Drought | A hot, rainless July and August stressed vines into thick-skinned fruit. | Not yet verified |
| 1983 | Cool | A cold winter and cold August gave way to a late, perfect October harvest. | Not yet verified |