How does climate change affect Chilean wine?

Climate change poses new challenges in the management of vineyards in our country. This was explained by Yerko Moreno, director of the Technological Center of Grapevines and Wine of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Talca, who outlined the problems that can affect these crops. “If one looks closely at the last five or six seasons, we have never had one exactly the same as another and that imposes a significant degree of uncertainty on producers regarding management practices and prevents them from correctly estimating, for example, the yields they will have from one year to the next,” he explained. Temperature and the decrease in water availability, said the specialist, have also modified the ways of conducting agronomic management in recent years. For this reason, he assured that it is necessary for the industry to work on an adaptation process that includes several phases. “Faced with climate change, the first thing one has to do is diversify the forms of ...