Wine and Climate Change (eBook)

Winemaking in a New World

L. J. Johnson-Bell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
224 Seiten
Burford Books (Verlag)
978-1-58080-531-5 (ISBN)

Infos

People who make, sell, or enjoy wine have increasing awareness that climate change will affect how and where wine is produced. This is the first general-audience trade book to look at this growing issue in world-wide winemaking. It is neither a polemic on the climate-change debate nor a gloom-and-doom warning that good wine is threatened, but rather a detailed look at the ways in which the world of wine will be altered as our climate changes.

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Climate change is changing the way winemakers make wine. Once temperate grape-growing regions are growing hotter, challenging winemakers to produce high quality wines in unfamiliar ways. Many of the negative effects of climate change on the wine world are already apparent: European vineyards in the heart of traditional winemaking areas, for example, are suffering lower yields due to increasing temperatures. But new opportunities are also presenting themselves: areas in Europe and the Americas that could not successfully produce vitis vinifera grapes are becoming important players in the new world of wine. This book will explore climate change in a wine producing context, discussing why climate is important to grape growing and how climatic changes can affect grapes and wine. It will cover each major wine region in the world, analyzing the likely trends and their responses. And it will cover the ways wine producers are coping with this very quickly changing landscape. All this is central to the world of wine and centrally important to those who enjoy wines complexity and variety.

Autor

Linda Johnson-Bell is an award-winning wine writer and author. Former Editor-in-Chief of Vintage International Magazine, she regularly works as a wine competition judge and has contributed to WINE, Drinks, The Henley Standard, Decanter, Wine & Spirit, and many other publications. She lives in Oxford, England.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• ISBN-10: 1-58080-531-0 / 1580805310
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58080-531-5 / 9781580805315