http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-wine24jan24,1,6207566.story?coll=la-headlines-food"The acute environmental sensitivity of wine grapes separates vineyards from other agricultural systems, says Dan Cayan, a climate researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "If you believe the viticulturists and their classifications of where premium wine can, and cannot, be produced, and you impose the global warming projections," he says, "you find some areas would possibly be thrust into a climate no longer suited to the grapes now grown there."
Breaking tradition
THE wine world is scrambling to guard against disaster. In a stunning bow to climate change, French wine regulators last month approved the use of vineyard irrigation, reversing centuries of tradition to rescue regions suddenly too hot for dry farming.
UC Davis scientists are breeding new strains of vines and root stocks that can better survive extremes of heat and drought. Spanish vintners are studying whether they can plant vineyards in the cooler foothills of the Pyrenees. Belgium, Denmark and even Sweden are jumping into viticulture."
As a fond drinker of German Rieslings, this is a bit worrisome.
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