The Austrian Vintage 2011 - After a short dry spell due to the rather low quantities of recent vintages the Austrian vintage 2011 presents itself with elegantly balanced white wines and reds from perfectly ripened grapes. With the pickings for the last
Smaller but sweeter: high quality, low yields characterize the 2012 harvest A phone survey by WGGA in early March 2012, following drenching rain and flooding on the eastern seaboard found that these conditions in the east starkly contrasted with
Professor Denis Dubourdieu Bordeaux Vintage Report for 2011 is available in PDF here
Conditions Weather conditions in winter and early spring 2012 were mild across southern Ontario and the wine growing regions. It was particularly warm in March and the vines started the growth cycle early. After a few frost concerns in April, the rest
Another Early Start for the BC Icewine Harvest (Kelowna, BC) Mere days after completion of the BC grape harvest, the 2011 Icewine harvest began. Once again, this marks one of the earliest starts to the Icewine harvest in BC, with the first grapes
Salve, As winter starts to close in on the valley, we finally have had a chance to sit back and reflect on the 2011 harvest. As spring turned to summer this year, the rains continued un-abated and there was general panic throughout the Okanagan
THE GIFT OF 2011 . . . One might think that if you were to design the perfect growing season for producing Pinot noir, you'd choose normal bud break in early April; sunny days for timely bloom and a modest fruit set; a warm, relatively dry summer,
(Kelowna, BC) As the temperature continues to drop, harvest is winding down throughout British Columbia and, overall, vintners are extremely happy with the fruit quality from the 2011 vintage. In the Okanagan, most wineries are in the final stages
Austria's 2011 vintage finally has the cellars full again. The weather gave us healthy and ripe grapes for the most part - a reward for all the good work and for the challenges over the last few years. The warm Summer this year did present its own challenges
2011 Vintage in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, an Exceptional Year! Harvest season has always been the moment of truth for the thousands of grape producers across France. Despite rather unusual weather throughout the summer, the Languedoc-Roussillon
Please find here the Issue No 19 of Mosel Fine Wines with Part I of the 2011 VintageReport. This issue covers a general introduction to the vintage and offers detailedreviews for 13 leading Estates. Vintage Report Part I PDF available here Part
Vina Cobos 2010 Harvest report--Lujan de Cuyo and Valle de Uco districts only filed by Andrea Marchiori, Luis Barraud and Paul Hobbs Winter: Early winter (late May to mid-June) started with unseasonably mild temperatures. The
Mainz, November 5th, 2009 - After a year of nearly perfect weather, wine-growers in all 13 German wine-growing regions are extremely pleased with the quality of the 2009 crop. "This year will go down in history as a truly great vintage," predicted Norbert
The winter of 2008 was wetter and longer than normal with a record rainfall of 196 mm in July and 167mm in September. This was good for getting moisture in the soil, but it delayed budbreak until late September. The bud break was even and once it got
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