A hot year, but with cooler climate wines, Argentina’s 2024 vintage

Published 2024년 6월 7일

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The 2024 harvest in Argentina's wine industry was marked by unusual climate conditions, with both high temperatures and cool characteristics. Despite the challenges of high winter rain and snowfall, which increased water reserves, and damaging Zonda winds, overall production has increased from the previous year's historic low. The quality of the grapes was high, leading to wines with great depth, color, and freshness. The harvest saw a longer and slower maturation window, resulting in promising white wines with herbal, floral, and white fruit aromas, and high acidity levels.

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Warm in temperature, yet cool in character is how many of Argentina’s winemakers are summarising the 2024 harvest — which, yet again, presented unusual characteristics in the face of climate change. Amanda Barnes reports. “It’s been a hot year, but a truly great vintage — with wines showing the freshness of a cool year,” sums up Edy del Popolo, who produces Susana Balbo Wines and PerSe, of vintage 2024. The winter and spring had two important differentiating factors — for better and worse. Firstly, the unusually high level of winter rain and snowfall offered producers a much needed windfall to top up the depleted water reserves that were at a 30-year low. But the winter and spring was also ravaged by an unusually high occurrence of Zonda winds. The Zonda — high-altitude foehn winds which can run at over 100 km/hr — bring hot, sandy winds which can damage delicate spring buds. “Throughout the entire month of November there was a true marathon of Zonda winds!,” continues del Popolo. ...

Source: Thedrinkbusiness