Monday, February 8, 2021

Climate Change Is Very Quickly Affecting Wine

Not really anything new to those who accept the science, but climate change is already and now in to the future will affect wine. Shouldn't really come as a big surprise. If you want the absolute well informed and well researched explanation, the best one found (non-scientific) is from Wine Enthusiast - Climate Change Is Rapidly Altering Wine As We Know It. The long and short of it, if you know and follow wine, while grapes aren't necessarily all that hard to grow, they are very sensitive to climate... read enough about California and French wine growing and inevitably people will wax philosophical about individual micro-climates and their effect on grapes and individual wines. Isn't all that hard to extrapolate the various differences in micro-climates to think what if whole regions are changing, as they are with climate change. Right now we're experiencing and need to get used to droughts with intense occasional rains. Fires are rampant burning through vineyards. Wine growing regions are kind of a mess and not going to get all that much better.