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World's Vintners Worry About Global Warming
Scientists and vintners say wine grapes are the best agricultural measure of climate change because of their extrodinary sensitivity to weather and the meticulous data that have been kept concerning the long-lived vines. "The link of wine to global warming is unique because the quality of wine is very dependent on climate" says Bernard Sequin of the French National Agronomy Institute.
The harvest date has moved up a month earlier during each of the past three decades. Grapes once harvested in October are now being harvested in August. Rising temperatures are causing these earlier harvests which in turn is changing the tastes of the best-known grape variaties and threatening the survival of centuries-old wine growing regions.
Champagne producers are looking at properties in southern England, where it has been 500 years since a mini ice age cooled Europe and ended wine making in Britian. For the present, vintners will have to change traditions and techniques to adapt to the new world climate for winemaking.
Everyone save your corks
and keep this country afloat!!
Exerpt from Molly Moore, Washington Post
The Hartford Courant Sept. 5, 2007
