The winners and losers of the wine industry from climate crisis
Briefly

Some of the world's most prized wine regions face being wiped out in the coming decades due to impacts of the climate crisis...
Higher temperatures shift grape harvests to warmer parts of the summer, changing the wine's quality, and spurring new diseases and pests...
If global warming exceeds 2C, some 90 per cent of the winegrowing areas in the coastal and plains regions of Spain, Italy, Greece and southern California may be unable to produce renowned wines...
Researchers combed through 250 pieces of scientific literature from the past 20 years to analyze how changes in temperature, rainfall, humidity, radiation and carbon dioxide affect wine production...
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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