Vintage Weather
2019 across the wine world
Every region on record for 2019, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Northern hemisphere
A long, dry summer with a July heat record gave balanced reds and fresh whites.
April frost, cool flowering and a hot, dry summer cut the crop; the wines stayed fresh.
Spring frost, two record heatwaves and drought, with cool nights during ripening.
Hot, dry year; groundwater and northern showers carried vines to a near-average crop.
Very hot, dry year; well-timed showers kept freshness and Cote-Rotie led.
A sweltering, very dry year that turned out best in Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Frost, heat, drought and autumn rain cut the Mosel crop, but the grapes came in ripe.
A slow, wet start and two heat peaks gave a late, classic Nebbiolo harvest.
Wet spring, warm dry summer and a fine September; a generous Vino Nobile crop.
A dry, cool summer and well-timed rain gave fresh, lively wines.
A stable, healthy season and a smaller crop earned Rioja's first Excelente since 2011.
A wet spring and mild summer gave ripe, generous reds with softer tannins.
A cooler, wetter season after five warm years, with rain at the start of harvest.
A quiet season cut short by the Kincade fire, with about 92 percent of the crop picked.
A mild, late season cut short by October frosts, with fresh, high-acid fruit.
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 Mendoza year with summer heat peaks gave fresh, concentrated wines.
A hot, fast vintage with an early harvest for many and fires in several states.