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Heatwave drives early harvests in Italy and France

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Heatwave drives early harvests in Italy, Champagne Italy and France

The 2026 summer heatwave continues to compress the wine calendar across Italy and into France’s Champagne region. now parts of southern France. In Lombardy’s Oltrepò Pavese the harvest began in late July, marking the first July picking on record, while Franciacorta followed also started on 30 July. Abruzzo started followed on 3 August, and other Italian areas—including Alessandria, Cuneo, growers in Veneto, Friuli‑Venezia Giulia and the broader Cuneo province—report and other Italian provinces are harvesting ten to fifteen days ahead of the usual September schedule. Hail storms have damaged 30‑40 % of vines in some Lombardy sites. In France’s Aude department and the Pyrénées‑Orientales, viticulturists reported their first July harvests. Fitou appellation president Alain Gleyzes began picking Moscato on 30 July after a severe drought that killed about 30 % of his vines, and other growers such as the Lalaurie twins and the Lafage estate started roughly a week to ten days early. Champagne’s inter‑professional body Réseau Matu still expects the vintage to begin between 20 and 25 August, at least 12 twelve days earlier than recent years. Regional officials such as Lombardy agriculture assessor Alessandro Beduschi and Coldiretti organisations groups continue to warn that the combination of extreme heat, hail hail, and limited water threatens both threaten yields and wine quality. In response, Coldiretti Abruzzo has submitted a quality, urging climate‑adaptation proposal to regional authorities, measures, financial support and wine consortia are calling for innovative tools and financial support to help producers adjust to the accelerating phenology. for producers.

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  1. 2026-07-31 13:12 UTC Heatwave drives early harvests in Italy and France
  2. 2026-07-31 10:17 UTC Heatwave drives early harvests in Italy, Champagne
  3. 2026-07-31 00:06 UTC Italian heatwave accelerates early harvests
  4. 2026-07-30 13:00 UTC Italian heatwave accelerates early harvests
  5. 2026-07-30 11:04 UTC Italian heatwave accelerates early harvests
  6. 2026-07-28 13:51 UTC Italian heatwave accelerates early harvests

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