Vintage Weather
2001 across the wine world
Every region on record for 2001, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Northern hemisphere
A soaked winter and patchy summer, a cool late harvest, and a standout sweet wine year.
A cool, wet year with 2 August hail; the Cote de Nuits outshone the Cote de Beaune.
Dry summer; September north wind and fine weather concentrated the crop, notably up north.
A damp September and sunny October gave small yields and supreme Mosel Riesling.
April cold and hail, a hot rainless August, then a cooler September and a big crop.
An April frost cut the crop; a hot, dry summer gave full-bodied wines.
A very wet winter, then little rain from April to August and a large crop.
Spring heat, healthy grapes and top analytics earned Rioja an Excelente.
Frost and heat spells gave way to a cool September and ripe Cabernet.
April frost, early summer heat and a late-September storm; smaller crops, top Zinfandel.
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).
A hot, very dry Mendoza summer, then scattered rain and hail at the end of March.
Reds overtook whites for the first time as a hot summer met rain-fed vines.