Bad news for us wine lovers. USA Today reports that global warming is really starting to mess with grape growing (which we already mentioned once before).
I have just got back from a few days in Italy (first mention of many; you have been warned!) and the weather in the region I was in, the Veneto, has had terrible weather this year. So cold and wet that the stage of grape development is about two weeks behind the norm. Of course unless you are monitoring these things year on year it is impossible to say this is a long term trend or just down to the vagaries of mother nature.
The news article though says that as grape growing is highly temperature-sensitive and if the world continues to get hotter the most renown regions (Burgundy, Napa Valley etc) will lose their perfect growing conditions. Warmer temperatures in southern Spain are driving grape growers to shade vineyards, develop heat-resistant grapes, and in some cases, move to the mountains. Climate change could reduce the world's viable grape-growing regions by nearly 80 percent by the end of the century.
Such changes though could make 'undiscovered' areas - England, Denmark(?), Canada better areas for making decent wine.
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