1988

A warm wet winter was followed by a dry period in the early Spring.  No rain fell at all in the Upper Douro in March, and the average...

The Mallet

Scion

In  2008  Taylor Fladgate's  Head winemaker,  David  Guimaraens,  became aware of  the existence of a...

2008

The 2008 winter was drier and colder than normal with only 258mm of rain falling at Pinhão between November and March.  Fortunately,...

1999

Following a wet 1998 vintage we had a very cold and dry winter, with very little rainfall. As a consequence, budburst started two weeks later than...

1977

The winter of 1976/7 was one of the wettest on record, with over 60 centimetres of rain falling between October and March, and after three years of...