Vintage Weather
1945 across the wine world
Every region on record for 1945, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
A wartime vintage overshadowed by export collapse, not weather conditions.
Harvested autumn 1945
A devastating frost halved yields, then heat and drought concentrated a legend.
Frost and a cyclone cut yields, but a hot dry summer made intense, powerful reds.
Frost and disease cut the crop, but the driest year since 1873 concentrated it.
Spring frost cut yields; a hot dry summer concentrated the rest.
A tiny wartime harvest made under occupation survives mainly as a historical relic.
A rare wartime vintage prized for its scarcity and history.
A very hot, dry summer with an early September harvest, a benchmark year.
No weather record survives, but this year marked the birth of Rioja's Consejo Regulador.