Vintage years
The 2021 harvest
Season weather by region, compared with the previous ten years.
2021
season complete- Zones5
- Wines in catalogue8
In brief
The 2021 season in brief
- Vayots Dzor: warmer than the previous ten years here; an ordinary September for rain.
- Armavir: warmer than the previous ten years here; an ordinary September for rain.
- Ararat: warmer than the previous ten years here; an ordinary September for rain.
- Aragatsotn: warmer than the previous ten years here; a drier September than the previous ten.
- Tavush: warmer than the previous ten years here; an ordinary September for rain.
Compared with each region's 2011–2020 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 2021 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
warmer
warmer 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
warmer
warmer 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
Ararat
Araratwhole region
warmer
warmer 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
Aragatsotn
Aragatsotnwhole region
warmer
warmer than the previous ten years here
dry September
a drier September than the previous ten
no frost
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
Tavush
Tavushwhole region
warmer
warmer 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
In the catalogue
Wines of 2021 in the catalogue
8 wines of 2021 in the catalogue. Vintages are producer declarations. A year we hold for one bottling says nothing about the rest of the range.
Kangun Reserve
AKOOM
Armavir
Reserve
Old Bridge Winery
Vayots Dzor
Muscat
Aparteny
Armavir
Areni-Khndoghni-Nrneni
MOONQ
Areni Rosé
Nor Areni
Vayots Dzor
Brut
Proshyan
Vayots Dzor
Nrneni
MOONQ
Armavir
Areni Rosé
Nor Areni
Vayots Dzor
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.