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.
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I can live without wines that are undrinkable.
Such assertions show how truly clueless the adherents of anthropogenic global warming really are.
Even were their belief true, or were the world to warm, say 4 degrees Celsius for some other reason, the cultivation of pinot noir grapes, and viniculture in general would simply move away from the equator. We’d be considering the virtues of pinots noirs from Yorkshire or the region around Sitka instead of France and California. True, it might kill antipodean wine industry — it’s already the South Island of New Zealand, and only the Australian states along the south coast, NSW, Victoria and South Australia, that produce much wine.
OMG!!!! It’s a calamity of heroic proportions.
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