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.
Northern hemisphere
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.
Southern hemisphere
Southern hemisphere: the vintage year is the harvest year, so the growing season began in the previous calendar year (spring in September to October, harvest in February to April of the vintage year).
A wartime vintage overshadowed by export collapse, not weather conditions.