Europe for the first time in many years is experiencing a real winemaking crisis. The reason for this is a series of natural disasters that ruined the vine. Frozen in France, fires in Portugal, hail in Italy and anomalous heat across Europe, brought the harvest of the grapes to record low levels, - Bloomberg reports in the publication "Wine Report-2017".

As follows from the report, in France and Italy such a meager harvest of grapes was not seen since the Second World War. In Spain, a little better, but also expected to drop production by 20-30%. Germany and Austria were able to avoid the fate of neighboring countries, but the prices for wine products there still jumped many times.

All these factors can have a serious impact not only on the old Europe, but also on the global wine market, the domestic sommelier believes, writes BFM. RU ". According to the wine critic of Simple Wine News, Vasily Raskov, the problem is really serious. And, in spite of the fact that there are a lot of wine producers in Russia, the domestic consumer always treated the "Chablis" and "Sherry" with undisguised piety,. So very soon it may be unpleasant to surprise the price tags for imported wine products.

"Indeed, some regions have suffered greatly from the heat, from drought. The climatic changes of the last ten years, which lead to unpredictable weather manifestations, have a bad effect on winemaking - not so much warming as powerful swings. That heat, then hail, then frost. Burgundy, Chablis and the whole Cote d'Or were badly affected. There were frosts in Bordeaux, but, as far as I know, there individual vineyards suffered, in Saint-Emilion, "complains the sommelier.

As for the domestic market, then experts are not inclined to dramatize much. Even, in connection with the fact that Russia this year also did not escape the abnormal weather conditions and the weather did not spoil relative stability.

"Of course, we had little trouble with the fact that it was quite late spring, cold. But in the Crimea and in the Krasnodar Territory, there were no powerful frosts, no mass death of the vineyards, nothing of the sort, "reassures the leading Russian wine expert and critic, member of the Union of Sommeliers and experts of Russia Denis Rudenko.

However, immediately the expert says that from this pill sweeter will not become. For domestic wine suppliers have only 20% of the total share in the Russian market. The remaining 80% is foreign products, which are imported into the Russian Federation in barrels and are already bottled and delivered to the shelves. Of course, for the future, it is too early to drive a cellar with various wine drinks. But to think about this connoisseurs of European quality is still probably worth.