The climate change riddle

Warmer climes are opening up areas for viticulture that did not exist 35 years earlier, and this trend will only accelerate

Australia is burning. The cause of more than 1,000 bushfires across the continent is probably climate change: simplistically, an extended dry season before the onset of summer (December-January), exacerbated by the late withdrawal of the monsoons in the Indian sub-continent in 2019.

Climate change is a fact, even if naysayers contest the science. The globe is warming up at an unprecedented rate, and high temperatures in one place mean colder winters in another; drought here leads to floods elsewhere — the whole weather system is interconnected.

What does this mean for the wine industry?

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