The 2023 harvest is indeed the shortest ever recorded in the Pyrénées-Orientales vineyards, due to drought. This is the first time that it has fallen below 500,000 hectoliters.
In the general meetings of the appellations, the tension is palpable as the treasuries are stretched. There is a shortage of natural sweet wines, muscats for example, and stocks are melting. The paradoxes, on the other hand, multiply. The vines grew so little last year that pruning was difficult. It still doesn't rain and all the elders say it: "We've never seen that."