<b>Alok Chandra:</b> Wine and climate change

Climate change has impacted wine production in several ways. Here's how

There is incontrovertible scientific evidence that the earth’s climate has been changing at a faster rate in the last century, and that on the average, summer temperatures over the last 20 years are higher than for at least the last 500 years.

This has impacted wine production and quality in various ways, depending upon where the grapes were being grown in the first place. 

Earlier harvests:  For one, grape harvests are taking place earlier than ever before.  Sula started picking its white wine grapes in the Nashik area in mid-December this year, whereas 30 years back the earliest that Indage