Wine
Bordeaux Heading for `Great' Vintage After Unusually Dry Summer
- Harvest conditions in September were exceptionally favorable
- Wet weather in the spring gave some growers issues with mildew
Olivier Bernard takes part in a grape harvest at a vineyard near Bordeaux.
Photographer: Mehdi Fedouach/AFP via Getty Images
Bordeaux wine-makers are heading for a “great” vintage this year after an unusually warm growing season and exceptionally dry summer and harvest, according to Olivier Bernard, whose family owns Domaine de Chevalier in Pessac-Leognan south of the city.
“2018 was a vintage with two periods,” he said at a tasting of wines from the 2016 vintage organized in London on Oct. 16 by the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux. “A very wet period until the end of June, and very dry after July. We can already tell you we have a great vintage.”