Vintage years
The 1988 harvest
Season weather by region, compared with the previous ten years.
1988
season complete- Zones5
- Wines in catalogue0
In brief
The 1988 season in brief
- Vayots Dzor: cooler than the previous ten years here; an ordinary September for rain.
- Armavir: cooler than the previous ten years here; a wetter September than the previous ten.
- Ararat: cooler than the previous ten years here; a wetter September than the previous ten.
- Aragatsotn: cooler than the previous ten years here; an ordinary September for rain.
- Tavush: as warm as the previous ten years here; an ordinary September for rain.
Compared with each region's 1980–1987 mean. ERA5-Land and ERA5 reanalysis, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), CC BY 4.0. Weather, not a rating of the wine.
Zone by zone
The 1988 season zone by zone
The season zone by zone: the region as a whole first, then its appellations. Each is compared with its own mean over the previous ten years.
Only the unusual is coloured: warmth and September rain are compared with each zone's mean over the previous ten years; a frost means a minimum of −2 °C or lower after 10 April. An uncoloured indicator means “as usual”, a dashed one means no data. Tap an indicator for the full sentence; the figures by region are in the table on the vintage years page.
Vayots Dzor
Vayots Dzorwhole region
cooler
cooler than the previous ten years here
usual September
an ordinary September for rain
no frost
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
Armavir
Armavirwhole region
cooler
cooler than the previous ten years here
wet September
a wetter September than the previous ten
no frost
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
Ararat
Araratwhole region
cooler
cooler than the previous ten years here
wet September
a wetter September than the previous ten
no frost
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
Aragatsotn
Aragatsotnwhole region
cooler
cooler than the previous ten years here
usual September
an ordinary September for rain
no frost
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
Tavush
Tavushwhole region
usual warmth
as warm as the previous ten years here
usual September
an ordinary September for rain
no frost
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
In the catalogue
Wines of 1988 in the catalogue
No bottle in the catalogue carries 1988 on record. The vintage is declared by the producer and we publish it where they do — most wines here are undated, so this is a statement about our catalogue rather than about the year.
Sources
Where these series come from.
ERA5-Land and ERA5 reanalyses, Copernicus
Temperatures from ERA5-Land, a grid of about 0.1°; precipitation from ERA5, a coarser grid. A gridded model, not weather stations in the vineyards.
Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Processed: daily values, elevation adjustment. Licence CC BY 4.0. How the weather is computed
Elevation adjustment: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.
One grid cell per region
Each region is computed at a single representative point, not as an average of its appellations. The card shows the cell's coordinates and elevation, which can differ from the vineyards'.
Season window
April 1 to October 31. A year is compared with the mean of the previous ten full seasons, provided there are at least eight of them.
About these numbers
Source: ERA5-Land reanalysis, precipitation from ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service) — a gridded model, not weather stations in the vineyards. Years are compared with the mean of the previous ten, not with the 1991–2020 climate normal: the climate has shifted, and against that normal most recent years would read as warmer than usual — true about warming, but not about the year. This is not a rating of wine and not a drinking window: the weather explains what the season was like; what ended up in the bottle depends on picking and on the winery's work.