Vintage Weather
1976 across the wine world
Every region on record for 1976, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Temperature
Cold → Hot
Northern hemisphere
Bordeaux
Vintage report →Record heat and drought gave an early harvest, then rain diluted the reds.
Burgundy
Vintage report →One of Europe's most severe heatwaves made small, deeply concentrated Pinot Noir.
Champagne
Vintage report →The hottest European summer on record made rich, soft, early-picked wine.
Mosel
Vintage report →The hottest summer in a century concentrated fruit into legendary sweet wines.
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 →Warm, dry season and early budburst produced concentrated, long-aging reds.