Vintage Weather
1995 across the wine world
Every region on record for 1995, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Northern hemisphere
A 40-year heat and drought record was capped by rain that firmed up tannins.
Frost and millerandage made a tiny, concentrated crop that took decades to open.
A hot, stormy year gave forward, generous wines with soft acidity.
A warm, dry year with an August mistral, but rain hurt northern harvest.
Rain-plagued late summer was redeemed by the warmest October in a decade.
A cool, wet summer and August hail were rescued by a warm October.
A small harvest after early rain gave rich, tannic, concentrated wines.
Four weeks of furnace-like August heat pushed sugars to record levels.
A warm, well-watered year that delivered abundant, ripe, Excelente-rated wines.
Floods and a June hailstorm gave a late, lighter, balanced vintage.
A promising spring undone by mid-harvest rain, yet elegant wines resulted.
Winter floods and a June hailstorm gave way to a rescuing Indian Summer.
A cool, rain-affected season produced a mixed but rewarding vintage.
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).
Thinly documented; Decanter rated it 4 of 5 and judged Argentina superior.