Vintage Weather

1971 across the wine world

Every region on record for 1971, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.

Temperature

Cold → Hot

Warm · Drought

Warm, dry conditions produced Max Schubert's favorite Grange vintage.

Harvested autumn 1971

Cool · Low yield

A cold, wet flowering slashed yields, concentrating an elegant, very good vintage.

Average · Hail, Low yield

Hail-hit reds but a sublime September made concentrated, ageworthy whites.

Cool · Frost, Hail

Frost and hail nearly wrecked it, but a hot September saved elegant wine.

Warm · Botrytis

Rain hurt flowering, but long balanced ripening made the best wines since 1959.

Hot · Hail

Hail cut yields but a hot summer and dry October built huge depth.