Climate change will profoundly modify the world's wine production, according to study

Vineyards in the Andes, or in the Argentine pampas? According to a study published this Tuesday, climate change will lead to a profound modification of wine geography around the world. "Climate change changes the geography of wine, and there will be winners and losers," summarizes Cornelis van Leeuwen, professor of viticulture at a French school of agricultural engineers, Bordeaux Sciences Agro. Heat and drought will increase, and with them vine diseases, or the appearance of pests, according to the study published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 90% of the traditional wine regions in the coastal and inland areas of Spain, Italy and Greece could be threatened with disappearance. And at the same time, areas where vine cultivation is scarce or non-existent, such as in the south of England, the pampas or higher regions of the Andes could benefit. Depending on their particular level of warming, those traditional regions, from Spain's Rioja to the Bordeaux region, could lose ...