US EditionHarvest 2025: Climate Change and Heat Wave Make Harvests Even Earlier This Year
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As a result of global warming, the cremant's harvest started on Tuesday 19 August in Alsace, which had never happened until then. And in the Loire, too, the three vineyards (Forez, Roannais and Pilat), are preparing for early harvests.
The start of the harvest was given with a significant advance in several regions, a direct consequence of climate change and heat waves.
The previous record dates back to 2018, with a harvest beginning on August 22. "There are almost twenty to twenty-five days of difference compared to thirty years ago," according to the president of the Association of Wine Growers of Alsace, who points to the consequences of global warming.
In the Alsatian vineyard, the start is set for harvests. They will start on August 19, 2025 for cremant grape varieties and on August 25 for quiet wines. A historic record of precocity. The previous record dates from 2018.
On Tuesday, August 19, 2025, the Alsatian winemakers launched the harvest of the cremant. Never before had a harvest started so early in the region. All the AOC wines will follow from August 25, with ten days ahead of 2024. A historical record of precocity for the harvests in Alsace The harvests in Alsace had never been so early. The previous record was August 22, 2018, but it is now exceeded. This year, the start on August 19 for the cremant hi…
As a result of global warming, the cremant harvest will start on Tuesday, August 19th in Alsace. Never the harvest started so early in the year, we learned today from the Association des viticultureurs d'Alsace (AVA). The sparkling wine traditionally kicks off the harvest, the harvest of the other AOC wines scheduled to start this year on August 25th, said to AFP Gilles Ehrhart, president of the AVA. We never started this early, he observed, the…
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