Vintage Weather
1977 across the wine world
Every region on record for 1977, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Temperature
Cold → Hot
Northern hemisphere
Port & Douro
Vintage report →A record-wet winter and cool summer were rescued by hot autumn weather.
Napa Valley
Vintage report →Second drought year; light harvest rain saved small berries.
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 →Cool, wet conditions made 1977 one of Australia's weakest vintages.