European Frosts?

[Matt@5453]

Heard many wine regions have had up to 80-90% of their harvest lost due to frost over the last 7days. Heard it is 'dire' but I don't have specifics.

I have seen this report.

[url]https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/fros ... -vineyards[/url]

Any one close to this?

[Ian S]

They did make a giant snowball in Yorkshire in the first county cricket game of the season. Certainly a lot of hail for us this week, which can be more destructive than frosts.

[sjw_11]

Just spotted these pics on linked in - posted by Les Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite), showing their efforts to combat the frost...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/domaines-baro ... 79296-sNpv

[sjw_11]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/apr/15 ... SApp_Other

It looks pretty bad indeed. Here in Paris we just have a pretty cold April but it’s certainly been hitting 1o in the mornings so I can well believe it’s been much worse in the wine regions.

[grapeobserver]

Sounds terrible. This article has a good summary for each French region: [url]https://www.wine-business-international.com/ ... age-france[/url]