Vintage Weather
2013 across the wine world
Every region on record for 2013, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Northern hemisphere
Cold wet spring, poor flowering and harvest rot; smallest crop since 1991.
A cold start, poor flowering and July hail gave a small crop and a late harvest.
A cold wet spring, a record-sunshine summer and an October harvest.
Cold spring and coulure cut the crop; a late harvest gave fresh, well-coloured wines.
Wine Spectator saw excellent potential for northern Syrah in a low-quantity year.
Cold spring and Grenache coulure cut the crop; a late harvest gave lighter, fresher wines.
Late flowering, hail and a damp, warm October cut the Mosel crop by more than a quarter.
A slow, wet spring and mildew, then a calm autumn and a late Nebbiolo harvest.
Wet, late start; heat from mid-July; October rain; four Brunello stars.
Wet winter, rainless summer, then rain from 27 September split a late harvest.
A dry warm year with the earliest harvest in recent record and a big crop.
A warm, early year cut in two by a 30-year rain event in late September.
A long, moderate, early season with clean fruit and a large, above-average crop.
A hot season that ran ahead of 2003, cooled at the finish, and set a tonnage record.
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 cool, healthy year of fresh, elegant wines, with hail in parts of eastern Mendoza.
Record summer heat brought an early, condensed harvest and the biggest crush since 2008.