English wines are set to take over from French and Australian, scientists say

Published 2024년 4월 21일

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Recent studies predict a significant shift in global wine production due to climate change, with traditional wine regions in southern Europe, such as France's Bordeaux and Burgundy, becoming less suitable for viticulture, while northern areas like Britain, southern Scandinavia, and America's Pacific north-west are expected to emerge as new favorable regions. French scientists project that up to 70% of current wine regions could become unsuitable if global temperatures rise beyond 2 degrees Celsius. Concurrently, the UK is experiencing a vineyard boom, with a 74 percent increase in vineyard area over five years, mainly in southern England, and projections suggest this area will nearly double in the next decade. Dr Alistair Nesbitt of Vinescapes underscores the urgent need for the viticulture industry to adapt to these changing conditions, highlighting the growth and potential of newer wine-producing regions like the UK amidst these shifts.

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Cambridge: Wine produced as far north as Scotland will threaten the future of traditional grape growing regions, experts have found. A new global map created by scientists from France’s Bordeaux and Burgundy wine provinces predicts that wine production will be forced to shift from the traditional terroir of southern Europe to the northernmost reaches of Britain. Changes in global temperatures are set to make mid-latitude regions – such as southern France, northern Spain and Italy, and the New World vineyards of southern California and the Barossa in Australia – unsuitable for production. Areas once considered too cool and wet for viticulture, such as the north of Britain, southern Scandinavia and America’s Pacific north-west, will be the winemaking “winners”, according to the study. Increased heat waves and erratic rainfall could wipe out vineyards from Greece to California by 2100, researchers found. The map, created by teams from Inrae, a public research institute for ...

Source: Watoday