Vintage Weather
1962 across the wine world
Every region on record for 1962, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Temperature
Cold → Hot
Northern hemisphere
Bordeaux
Vintage report →A warm, dry season after the tiny 1961 gave a big, charming, early-drinking crop.
Burgundy
Vintage report →A cold, late season made elegant, light reds and superb concentrated whites.
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).
Australia
Vintage report →Late harvest and rescuing summer rains produced Australia's largest crush of the era.