Vintage Weather
1952 across the wine world
Every region on record for 1952, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Northern hemisphere
A warm, dry summer was undone by a cold, rainy harvest on the Left Bank.
A hot summer cooled by September rain produced firm, classic, age-worthy wines.
A cooler season built fine acidity and refined, elegant Champagne.
A normal year produced strong, winy Barolo with firm tannins.
Officially rated Excellent, this vintage built elegant, long-lived Rioja from top estates.
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).
Average conditions produced the first commercial release of Penfolds Grange.