Posted on 01/03/2015 1:57:57 PM PST by Libloather
If global temperatures continue to rise, the taste of your favourite wine could either drastically change, or the drink could be off the menu completely.
A wine expert has warned that fine wines in particular, such as Pinot Noir, are having their flavour significantly altered due to climate change.
And, as a result, vineyard owners are ditching these grape varieties in favour of those that are better equipped to handle the increases in global temperature.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well drained sandy soil, moderate coastal temperatures.
They frickin RAISED GRAPES FOR WINE IN BRITAIN DURING THE LAST MEDEVIAL WARM PERIOD THESE DAMNED FOOLS!
The BS flows like ... wine.
The vineyards of France will move north to Ireland. France will stop producing wine because it will become a Muslim country.
The one percent better get busy prepping.
Outsourcing!
Funny, some of the best Pinot grapes grow in Oregon. And their weather/climate is just fine, thank you. Wet. But not warmer.
Well couldn’t England start growing Pino Noir grapes if temperatures in England were to rise?
“Climate change” is not the “it’s magic” of everything.
Use it to explain everything.
So they’re ditching the grapes because they think they won’t do well? That’s just perfect. It’s supposed to be snowing in Lawrence right now. They predicted it yesterday.
I’d be prone to suspecting that Pinot Noir would just be grown further north if this were actually a truthful account. You know, like during the early Middle Ages when Greenland was named Greenland and vineyards were planted where glaciers are at present. But, it’s not a truthful account.
Not=now
Muslim Warring - not Global Warming.
Pinot Noir has always been a hard grape to grow successfully. Most Pinot doesn’t even taste like Pinot should. That has always been the case. Hell, it is only fairly recently that growers outside a small area of France even tried. Burgundy? I’m always getting Burgundy and Bordeaux mixed up.
More Globull warning B.S.
“If”, “could”, “could”
Lots of if and butts, written by nuts.
[ How do the grapes know what the “global” temperature is? We’ve been told that North America is an anomaly with these cold winters and cool summers. In any event, the global temperature hasn’t changed in well over a decade anyway. I think it is an attempt to create artificial demand. ]
(Hippie mode)
Because they are connected to the earth man....
(end hippie mode)
Why not simply start raising grapes in more norther latitudes, like the romans did when they raised grapes for wine in Great Britain during the last roman warm period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period
The Roman Warm Period or the Roman climatic optimum has been proposed as a period of unusually warm weather in Europe and the North Atlantic that ran from approximately 250 BC to 400 AD.
As I expected, this article is not based on consulting vineyard owners or statistical analysis, but is based on the greenie fantasies of one jerk:
“In her study, wine industry consultant Kimberly Nicholas, associate professor of sustainability science at Lund University in Sweden, wrote: ‘Climate change is beginning to affect the singular flavours that people expect from different wines - the experience you come to know and trust from your favourite reds and whites.’”
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