Vintage Weather
2025 across the wine world
Every region on record for 2025, read the same way: temperature, rain, harvest timing, and the events that shaped the season.
Northern hemisphere
The hottest recent growing season gave a record-small, deeply tannic crop.
Two heatwaves and an 18 August start gave a small, healthy, cellar-worthy year.
A top-three hottest year with record ripening speed and small, healthy bunches.
A hot, early, small vintage with concentration, freshness and fine tannins.
A hot northern season with small crops, but growers judged quality high.
Southern appellations report summer heat, smaller crops and fresh, balanced early wines.
A fast, early harvest after the frost year gave small but very clean Riesling.
A wet spring and dry September gave Nebbiolo unusual balance at lower alcohol.
Heat and scattered hail cut the crop, and early word calls quality high.
Portugal's hottest, driest summer in 94 years cut volumes but not quality.
Mildew cut the crop, then a calm autumn earned an Excellent rating.
A cool summer gave slow ripening and fresh, moderate-alcohol wines.
A warm, dry year ran early and fast, with small berries and concentration.
A wet winter and cool summer gave fresh, lower-alcohol wines.
A warm, steady season with long hang time and a much smaller crop.
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 record-early hot start, then February rain split the vintage in two.
Spring frost and dry conditions cut yields in a red-led rebound year.