This thrilling collection of weather graphics through the years serves really as an appendix to my Bordeaux 2024 weather and crop report. I started preparing these images of the daily rainfall and temperatures during the growing season in 2016 and they are all shown below.
My annual Bordeaux vintage report is published on JancisRobinson’s fine wine website and on Liv-ex – the fine wine marketplace. To find previous ones, see ‘Bordeaux reports’ in the menu above.
Here’s my annual report on the amount of wine produced in Bordeaux last year, and how the weather shaped the size of the crop, and the wines, in 2024. (The top image is of the Cabernet Sauvignon harvest at Château Lafite Rothschild on a sunny October day. Below is a sorting table at Château Figeac in Saint-Emilion, also in October 2024.)
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