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The port and wine producers in the Portuguese Douro Valley have recorded a 2018 harvest "with absurdly low yields". The quality of the grapes is very good, but due to massive rainfall and hailstorms the yield is between 25 and 40 percent lower than in 2017, according to Paul Symington, owner of the traditional Symington Family business, in his annual harvest report. From March to May, very heavy rain fronts repeatedly swept across the valley. From July to August the already very hot temperature was 3.4 degrees above average. The calm October had at least made it possible for the winegrowers to ripen the grapes left over from the storms.

As a result of the extreme weather, the winegrowers' grape prices "went through the roof", Symington writes. The past two vintages have shown that change has become the norm in the Douro Valley. The winegrowers would have to adjust to this if they wanted to continue producing wine from autochthonous grape varieties with already extremely low harvest volumes.

(uka / Photo: Marco Varisco)

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