Vintage Weather
1979 across the wine world
Every region on record for 1979, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Temperature
Cold → Hot
Bordeaux
Vintage report → Late flowering brought Bordeaux's biggest crop since 1934, diluting quality.
Burgundy
Vintage report → Hail hurt the Cote de Nuits, but a big, healthy crop made fruity, early-drinking wines.
Champagne
Vintage report → A cool, frost-touched season still produced Champagne's largest-ever harvest.
Rhône Valley
Vintage report → A cool, wet spring and harvest rain gave lighter, elegant Syrah.
Barolo
Vintage report → A promising warm summer was undone by a wet, dilution-heavy October.
Willamette Valley
Vintage report → The vintage ripening while Oregon shocked Burgundy at the Paris tasting.