I don’t write about wine much mostly because it’s challenging for me to express things about wine. I’m more the I-like-it-or-I-don’t-like-it type. But I thought this post from Snooth was interesting about weather around the world and how it affects grapes and wine production.
Hail has been the big story in France this year, just last weekI reported on the devastating impact of storms that tore throughout the Cotes de Beaune and since then there have been significant and damaging hailstorms in both Bordeaux and Champagne, and let us not forget the damage done in the Loire Valley in June.
While the power of the storm caused damage in Bordeaux’s Left Bank, hail did not fail until the storm passed over the Giround estuary with three communes on the Left bank, Arveyres, Vayres, and Génissac suffering the greatest impact from the storms, which continued to move to the southeast before petering out in the St. Emilion region where hail damage was said to be apparent but not as significant as damage from winds and heavy rains. READ MORE