Ayioritiko wine
Posted on 09/06/2009 5:15:33 PM PDT by Cincinna
“French winemakers fear climate change”
Good reason to start drinking!
Yes, and it was in 2003. What has happened in France since then?
Climate change is not the primary threat to French winemakers. The coming imposition of Sharia Law, and the outlawing of winemaking, is.
Just try to buy a 1980, or newer, Persian wine.
If the French wine industry actually is harmed by ‘Global Warming’ it can be easily replaced by the newly productive English Vinyards, as it was at the time of Henry II and King Richard I.
The French need not worry—there is no global warming.
The french wine producers should be worrying about global cooling and what that will do to their grapes. This is just a typical hot summer...like that's never happened before!
well, the northwest did have record highs this year, and you know it always warms up again before the real “rain” come on!
| Date | High temperature | Low temperature |
|---|---|---|
| August 12, 1996 | 73 | 60 |
| August 12, 1997 | 89 | 64 |
| August 12, 1998 | 95 | 69 |
| August 12, 1999 | 69 | 59 |
| August 12, 2000 | (data missing) | (data missing) |
| August 12, 2001 | 78 | 51 (set the low record for Aug 12) |
| August 12, 2002 | 69 | 57 |
| August 12, 2003 | 102 | 71 |
| August 12, 2004 | 85 | 66 |
| August 12, 2005 | 82 | 55 |
| August 12, 2006 | 66 | 54 |
| August 12, 2007 | 81 | 61 |
| August 12, 2008 | 72 | 62 |
| August 12, 2009 | 83 | 61 |
Also, Mme. Vernay might note that the record low for August 12 for that location was set in 2001.
Furthermore, according to what I have read, many of the most important areas of French wine production had severe problems with cold, wet summers in the 1990s, events which helped drive the prices of some of the great vintages down out of the stratosphere.
“Holiday in Missouri”?
We owe the northern Europe beer culture to climate change (Mander minimum).
To begin with, it talks as if it is a case from the present, but it is from 2003, when there was a record heatwave.
Also, this is an account from an inexperienced winegrower.
“We’d never seen anything like it,” says Christine, a 52-year-old mother of two, who took over the renowned Vernay estate from her father in 1997. Nothing like it since 1997! A very long time.
One can tell she was inexperienced, that she took a vacation in the middle of August. A winegrower stays around in late summer, watching every day, they don't go on holidays. At the slightest turn in the weather - early ripening, a heat wave, a pending hailstorm, and they have to rush out and start harvesting. If she had been there and done that, at the start of the heatwave, she would have been in a better position.
... a friend from the same village, Condrieu, called her husband’s mobile phone. “The grapes have ripened early. You need to come home now,” he said.
That sort of thing is why winegrowing is a dreadful job. One can work all year, then lose an entire harvest within 12 hours, if the weather turns.
Thanks for the explanations!
Sure, there are tradeoffs...
127 pound cabbage breaks world record
Anchorage Daily News | September 5th, 2009 | RINDI WHITE
Posted on 09/05/2009 7:52:18 AM PDT by skeptoid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2332846/posts
It’s a reparations campaign.
Greenpeace says French wine is at risk without climate pact
Mother Nature Network | August 10, 2009 | Agence France-Presse
Posted on 08/13/2009 1:00:56 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2315329/posts
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