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Global Warming Brings Better Wine

Posted by timothy on from the where-in-the-cycle-are-we dept.

Makarand writes "According to this article in the SF Chronicle climatologists have a found a link between the warming environment and wine quality. They found that most vintages improved as vineyards' temperatures rose over the past 50 years with the quality improvement more pronounced in the cooler wine-producing regions." I wonder how wine fared during the "Little Ice Age."

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  1. Shocker: Climate change affects agriculture!!! by kinnell · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'm not an expert, but I was under the impression that wine quality improves with more sunlight. This does not necessarily correlate with an increase in temperature on either a local or global scale, although there is obviously a relationship. And like the article says, if it's too warm, the quality suffers. Also, don't forget the effect of varying amounts of rain caused by global warming in various regions. Essentially, some regions will benefit, while others will suffer from changing conditions, and it's probably unpredictable who will be the winners and the losers.

    So to summarise: climate change effects agriculture. This is news?

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