Another unusual year. It has been systematic this comment in the last 10 years. I'm starting to believe there's no usual years. 2000 was one of the hottest years, then came 2003 and 2005. 2001, 2004 and 2007 were a fresh years for a southern country of Europe. 2006 was hot as hell in the Summer and then came the rain around the 3rd week of September which didn't stopped for the rest of the harvest. 2002 also rained and diluted most of the wines. 2008 I thought it was the longest harvest ever with steady but very slow maturation. Now comes 2009 with very slow and steady maturation. Until a couple a weeks ago the summer was just warm, windy and dry. The vines got use to this and then were surprised by 2 weeks of usual Summer temperatures for Portugal.Now the first grapes are in the wineries and we are finding very mature grapes picked very early. In average 10 days of advance compared with 2008, but this is not a rule for all the regions and varieties.
It seems coolest regions will have later harvest and hottest ones are having earlier. Indeed an unusual Crush.
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