In Italy’s Drought-Hit Vineyards, the Harvest of a Changing Climate
ed and too fat, with too high an alcohol content." He said
that they knew how to deal with anomalies, but that if intense heat waves became permanent, "We’ll have to plant bananas and pineapples." That, of course, would be a tragedy to the world’s wine connoisseurs, who have come to worship this region’s Barolos and Barbarescos, nebbiolos and barberas. that are not good for the wine; the berries become unbalanc
Barolo said that The grapes are beautiful, the heat’s good for them,
In Barbaresco’s wine store, set up in a deconsecrated church, Michela Adriano, a young winemaker, said
that while some skeptics thought 2017 would be recalled as the vintage of climate change hysteria, some leading winemakers were thinking hard about how to adapt to the new abnormal.
But he feared that the lack of interplay of warm days and cool nights, of summer and autumn, threatened to overproduce the sugar and alcohol of a Barolo wine
that should be elegantly composed, like "a symphony." "There is no more balance," he said, lamenting the vanishing of the seasons.
" Ion Bruno, 50, a worker who has been picking the grapes for the last three decades, said as he clipped a stem.
that It’s 20 days earlier on average due to climate change,
Piero Comino said that People are picking grapes in their bathing suits, and they used to be in gloves and overcoats!
Italo Stupino said that It went off the charts,
