Vintage Weather
2022 across the wine world
Every region on record for 2022, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Frost cut yields in a cool year that balanced ripeness and acidity.
Harvested autumn 2022
A cooler La Nina season produced elegant, structured wines and standout dry rieslings.
Harvested autumn 2022
The second-hottest year on record still produced remarkably fresh, concentrated wines.
A hot, dry year rescued by June rain made perfumed, elegant, fresh wines.
Officially a solar vintage: warm, healthy, and generously ripe throughout.
The hottest, driest year since 2003 built powerful, age-worthy wines.
Germany's driest year ever still produced crisp, low-alcohol wines via September rain.
A second straight drought year still produced fresh, balanced wine.
The hottest year on record and an August hailstorm made concentrated wines.
Portugal's hottest ever reading and worst drought since 1931 cut yields.
Spain's hottest July on record still produced surprisingly fresh, healthy wines.
A record September heat wave, then rain, split 2022 into two harvests.
An April frost burned the primary buds and a warm October still brought it home.
Drought, spring frost, and a Labor Day heat dome made an intensely concentrated year.
A blizzard and a cold spring, then a warm fall rescued a big, fresh crop.