Internationally, Wine crops for the 2017 season have been relatively low. In Europe, the world's leader in wine production, extreme weather events damaged the vineyards. These events were both drought and frost. According to the Intergovernmental wine organization, this is the lowest it has been in over 50 years.
Additionally, farmers have to harvest grapes earlier and earlier due to climate change. In the US, Napa valley was plagued with the California wildfires and 47 vinyards were damaged.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/24/559780704/wine-organization-forecasts-historically-bad-year-due-to-weather-events
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