Vintage Weather
2017 across the wine world
Every region on record for 2017, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Northern hemisphere
April frost cut the crop by around 40 percent; spared vineyards made fruity reds.
Northern frost, a hot dry spring, then an early, plentiful and very healthy harvest.
Frost took 23% of buds, a hot early summer, then storms and rot at an early harvest.
Hot and dry with a record-early pick; coulure cut the crop, hardest in the south.
An early, warm, very dry season with small berries and lower yields.
Coulure and drought slashed an early crop, but the grapes came in ripe and healthy.
April frost gave the Mosel its smallest crop in 50 years and a record-early harvest.
April frost, a hot summer and months without rain led to an early Nebbiolo pick.
Late frost, drought and summer heat gave Chianti Classico its smallest crop in 40 years.
A very dry, warm Douro year brought record-early picking and tiny yields.
April frost and drought shaped a small crop and Rioja's earliest harvest on record.
Record heat defined 2017, with most fruit picked before the October fires.
A cool wet spring, the warmest August on record, and a slow steady harvest.
Wet winter, a hot August, a Labor Day heat spike, then the October fires.
A cool start and cool finish around a warm summer, rich with high acidity.
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 dry, frost-shortened year, with an early Mendoza harvest ahead of April rain and hail.
A larger crush, with a cool, wet, late season in many SA and Victorian regions.