Vintage Weather
2020 across the wine world
Every region on record for 2020, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
One of the hottest, earliest harvests on record, yet surprisingly fresh.
Harvested autumn 2020
The driest summer since 1959 gave an early harvest of great concentration.
The hottest, driest year yet produced surprisingly fresh, deeply colored wines.
Champagne's earliest-ever, hottest-driest harvest came in a pandemic year.
A wet winter and cool nights gave one of the earliest, freshest harvests.
One of the sunniest summers on record brought an early harvest of elegant, fresh wines.
A warm, well-timed season built the most approachable Barolo in years.
Spring frost cut yields; a hot, dry summer made ripe, generous wines.
Record July heat and near-zero rain made the smallest harvest this century.
A warm, wet spring triggered historic mildew, but skilled growers pulled through.
Two wildfires and widespread smoke cut the 2020 red crop sharply.
Labor Day wildfire smoke reshaped what was already a small, high-quality crop.
Catastrophic wildfires and smoke taint cut the crop by a third in a producer's vintage.
September smoke paused harvest on a small crop that still showed balance.