Climate Change – what does it mean for grape growing and how might it change Old World and New World winemaking and thinking?

By Nick Adams, Master of Wine. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report (summary) has sent reverberations around the world and set politicians and scientists into an understandable frenzy. For weeks now details have been well publicised of the excessive and unprecedented temperatures in both the Western USA and Canada. And just recently Italy (Sicily) recorded…