Vintage Weather
2018 across the wine world
Every region on record for 2018, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
A textbook, balanced year with warm days, cool nights, normal yields.
Harvested autumn 2018
Frost and February heat hurt the east, but the west had one of its best years.
Harvested autumn 2018
Severe spring mildew gave way to three months of perfect, dry summer weather.
One of the hottest, driest years made rich, plush, generous, early-picked wines.
A wet winter fed vines through a record-warm, record-abundant summer.
Severe mildew cut yields, but a hot, dry summer built powerful, generous wines.
The hottest four-month stretch since 1881 produced a huge, ripe, early harvest.
One of the wettest springs on record built a perfumed, elegant wine.
A cool, wet spring and mild summer made elegant, fresh, silky wines.
A cooler, wetter season built fresher wines with lower alcohol than 2017.
A mild season with no heat spikes, a late harvest and a very large crop.
A very warm, very dry, very sunny year saved by a half inch of September rain.
A long, cool, generous season made some of Sonoma's most balanced wines in decades.
A hot, dry summer and a cool, timely fall gave Washington balanced wines.