Douro, the 2018 harvest report: another atypical year. Alexandre Antas Botelho’s note
2018 was another atypical year in the Douro. We could even define irregular and uncharacteristic as the rule in recent years. 2018 had many difficulties and as main characteristics that define it: frequent and estended rainfall periods, hail storms, the great mildew pressure and the summer heat wave. But it seems that the grape quality was good and even, in some cases, as reported by some Douro producers, extraordinary. So, let us follow the wine year in the Douro. After a long cycle of ...
Vendemmia 2018, Primitivo di Manduria in controtendenza: buona qualità, quantità in calo e tenuta dei prezzi
Una vendemmia in controtendenza rispetto al resto d'Italia e della Puglia per il Primitivo di Manduria: qualità mantenuta, quantità in diminuzione e tenuta dei prezzi.
A un mese e mezzo dalla fine della vendemmia nella zona del Primitivo di Manduria doc, pur non avendo ancora i dati definitivi, il Consorzio di Tutela traccia le prime conclusioni.
"La vendemmia 2018 per il Salento in generale, e in particolare per il Primitivo di Manduria ha mostrato una flessione quantitativa. – afferma ...
Brazilian wine and sparkling wine exports increased 32% in value in the first half of 2018
Brazilian still and sparkling wine exports increased by 39.3% in volume and 32.8% in value in the first half of 2018, in comparison with the same period in the previous year. The wine products were traded to 29 countries, adding up to 1,593,137 liters and USD 3.6 million in sales. In the ranking of the five main destinations are Paraguay, the United States, Singapore, Colombia, and the United Kingdom. The 42 participating companies of the Wines of Brasil sector project, held in partnership ...
High quality marks the 2018 harvest in Rio Grande do Sul
Celebrated by winemakers as one of the best grape crops of the decade in terms of quality, the 2018 harvest accounted for the yield of 663.2 million kilograms of fruit in gaucho wineries. The volume, considered to be within the historic norm, is 12% smaller than the previous vintage. Of the total, 597,699,541 were American and hybrid grapes, and 65,640,421 were Vitis viniferas. In this crop, 113 grape varieties were harvested in 129 municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul, with processing in 64 ...
The 2018 vintage: abundant ripeness and an early harvest for the Austrian wines
«For the most part, Austria’s grapevines were able to withstand the enormous heat and lack of moisture that characterised the 2018 vegetation cycle. So we have a very early and very ripe vintage on our hands, one in which persistently high temperatures have led to consistently higher levels of alcohol and lower levels of acidity. Volume will in any event be just above average: we are looking forward to a harvest in the magnitude of some 2.6 million hectolitres» declared Viticultural ...
