1918

Bordeaux: Good. Wines of a beautiful color, a rather good corpulence, but missing a little of flexibility. Can still be very attractive.

Meteorological data: beautiful spring, summer without extreme temperatures. Wholesome rains in fine August.

State of the grape harvests: 

Date: at the beginning of October.

Quality: healthy grapes.

​Very fine weather generally throughout the whole year, including the harvest. However, it would appear that the ripeness did not reach optimal levels. Perhaps everybody was in as much of a hurry to harvest as they were to see the end of the bloody war that had been raging in Europe for four years. 

Burgundy: End of World War I with the signing of the Armistice on 11 November.

Fine spring weather resulted in an even flowering. The summer passed by with good warm temperatures without any excesses. September was fairly cool so the harvest was delayed to early October in order to wait for full ripeness. Rarely seen these days.