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

Warm · Low yield, Heat spike, Drought

A cold, wet flowering cut yields; a hot, dry summer built a great vintage.

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Burgundy

Hot · Drought, Low yield

Record drought and heat made rich, low-acid wines rescued by September rain.

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Champagne

Average · Frost, Hail

Hail and millerandage cut yields, but a dry finish gave rare balance.

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Mosel

Warm · Botrytis

Favorable warmth made this a mid-century benchmark alongside 1953 and 1959.

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