Vintage Weather
Washington State
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Temperature
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✓Verified against primary sources
| Year | Temperature | Events | Read | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Warm | Low yield | A warm, steady season with long hang time and a much smaller crop. | Verified |
| 2024 | Average | Frost, Mildew / rot, Low yield | A January freeze cut the crop, but harvest weather was ideal. | Verified |
| 2023 | Warm | Heat spike, Low yield | An easy season with one August heat spike and a small but high-quality crop. | Verified |
| 2022 | Cool | Frost, Heat spike | A blizzard and a cold spring, then a warm fall rescued a big, fresh crop. | Verified |
| 2021 | Hot | Heat spike, Smoke, Low yield | Record June heat cut yields and gave concentrated, powerful Washington reds. | Verified |
| 2020 | Average | Smoke, Heat spike, Low yield | September smoke paused harvest on a small crop that still showed balance. | Verified |
| 2019 | Average | Frost, Harvest rain, Low yield | A mild, late season cut short by October frosts, with fresh, high-acid fruit. | Verified |
| 2018 | Warm | A hot, dry summer and a cool, timely fall gave Washington balanced wines. | Verified | |
| 2017 | Warm | Smoke | A cool start and cool finish around a warm summer, rich with high acidity. | Verified |
| 2016 | Average | Heat spike | A record crop from an early warm start and a long, cool finish. | Verified |
| 2015 | Hot | Washington's warmest vintage to that point, picked historically early and unevenly ripe. | Verified | |
| 2014 | Hot | A second straight warm year ran two weeks early and finished clean and dry. | Verified | |
| 2013 | Hot | Frost | A hot season that ran ahead of 2003, cooled at the finish, and set a tonnage record. | Verified |
| 2012 | Warm | A warm, dry, even season returned normal timing and the biggest crop to that point. | Verified | |
| 2011 | Cool | Frost, Harvest rain, Low yield | A cool summer and a light crop made the latest harvest on record for many sites. | Verified |
| 2010 | Cool | Harvest rain, Botrytis, Low yield | The coolest year since 1999, saved by a warm fall, with low yields and high acid. | Verified |
| 2009 | Hot | Heat spike, Frost | A record-hot summer rushed harvest, and an October 11 frost closed the season. | Verified |
| 2008 | Cool | A cool, late season gave lighter reds and crisp, high-acid whites. | Verified | |
| 2007 | Average | Heat spike | Heat spikes and a cool, dry fall made hang time count for flavor, not alcohol. | Verified |
| 2006 | Warm | A hot, dry summer and a cooling September let flavor catch up to sugar. | Verified | |
| 2005 | Warm | A hot summer saved by September cooling gave dense reds and ripe whites. | Verified | |
| 2004 | Warm | Frost, Low yield | A January freeze hit Walla Walla hardest, then a hot season gave dense fruit. | Verified |
| 2003 | Warm | Late heat then a cool September gave one of Washington's most admired years. | Verified | |
| 2002 | Warm | Low yield | A cool start, a hot summer, and low yields that gave richer fruit flavors. | Verified |
| 2000 | Cool | Harvest rain | A cool season rescued by a warm, dry fall and one well-timed October rain. | Verified |
| 1999 | Cool | Drought | A cool spring gave way to a rescuing warm, dry fall and standout wines. | Not yet verified |
| 1998 | Hot | Heat spike | One of the hottest seasons on record made deeply concentrated, powerful reds. | Not yet verified |
| 1997 | Average | Harvest rain | A cool, wet September tested growers but still gave elegant, food-friendly reds. | Not yet verified |
| 1995 | Cool | A cool, rain-affected season produced a mixed but rewarding vintage. | Not yet verified | |
| 1994 | Warm | Heat spike | A warm, uneventful season produced big, rich, extracted reds. | Not yet verified |