Climate Change Is Coming for Your Favorite Wine

Jun 11, 2017

(Eater) - Last week Donald Trump announced he would be pulling the United States out of the Paris Agreement, the first-ever multi-national effort to curb the effects of climate change that was first adopted in 2015. The agreement’s chief goal is to urge countries to pursue ways — from limiting emissions to investing in clean energy — to prevent the global temperature from rising further than it already has.

 It has already become clear that climate change will negatively impact the world’s ability to grow and produce food. But hearty wheat and corn have not been effected as drastically as sensitive crops like wine grapes. Vintners across the world have been feeling both small and catastrophicchanges in the global climate far more acutely than other farmers. To get a sense of the regions that have already been affected, regions or varietals that experts are most concerned about, and what climate change means to the wine industry right now

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