PFISTER, Christian, Stefan BRÖNNIMANN, Andres ALTWEGG, Rudolf BRÁZDIL, Laurent LITZENBURGER, Daniele LORUSSO and Thomas PLIEMON. 600 years of wine must quality and April to August temperatures in western Europe 1420-2019. Climate of the Past. Copernicus Publications, 2024, vol. 20, No 6, p. 1387-1399. ISSN 1814-9324. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1387-2024.
Other formats:   BibTeX LaTeX RIS
Basic information
Original name 600 years of wine must quality and April to August temperatures in western Europe 1420-2019
Authors PFISTER, Christian, Stefan BRÖNNIMANN, Andres ALTWEGG, Rudolf BRÁZDIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Laurent LITZENBURGER, Daniele LORUSSO and Thomas PLIEMON.
Edition Climate of the Past, Copernicus Publications, 2024, 1814-9324.
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10510 Climatic research
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW URL
Impact factor Impact factor: 4.300 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1387-2024
UT WoS 001255272400001
Keywords (in Czech) kvalita vinného moštu; vinobaní; proxy letních teplot; synoptický typ; historická klimatologie; západní Evropa
Keywords in English wine must quality; grape harvest; summer temperature proxy; weather type; historical climatology; Western Europe
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS., učo 437722. Changed: 30/8/2024 11:33.
Abstract
This study investigates the validity of wine must quality as an April-to-August temperature proxy between 1420 and 2019 based on expert ratings and quality measurements from Germany, Luxembourg, eastern France, and the Swiss Plateau. This is highly relevant as uncertainties remain on past climate variations during this period. The evidence was reviewed according to the best practice of historical climatology. Expert ratings tended to agree with Oechsle density measurements that gradually replaced them from the 1840s. A statistical model calibrated to predict wine must quality from climate data explains 75 % of the variance, underlining the potential value of wine must quality as a climate proxy. Premium crops were collected in years of early harvest involving high insolation during maturation, while poor crops resulted from very late harvests in cold and wet summers. An analysis of daily weather types for high- and low-quality years after 1763 shows marked differences. On a decadal timescale, the average quality was highest from 1470 to 1479, from 1536 to 1545, and from 1945 to 1954. Poor crops were collected in periods with prevailing cold and wet summers such as 1453 to 1466, 1485 to 1494, 1585 to 1614, 1685 to 1703, 1812 to 1821, and 1876 to 1936. In the period of enhanced warming after 1990, high quality became the rule.
PrintDisplayed: 31/8/2024 03:26