Vintage Weather
1949 across the wine world
Every region on record for 1949, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Temperature
Cold → Hot
Bordeaux
Vintage report →A cold, wet flowering cut yields; a hot, dry summer built a great vintage.
Burgundy
Vintage report →Record drought and heat made rich, low-acid wines rescued by September rain.
Champagne
Vintage report →Hail and millerandage cut yields, but a dry finish gave rare balance.
Mosel
Vintage report →Favorable warmth made this a mid-century benchmark alongside 1953 and 1959.