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2002 and 2003 were great years for wine in France--heat waves helped grapes grow plump with sugar, which yielded a perfect balance of alcohol and acidity. You'd think that French wine growers would be happy about global warming- a couple of degrees rise in temperature would produce great wines all the time. But there is such a thing as too much sun. Plus, climate change also brings unpredictable weather. While adapting to changing weather is an inherent part of making wine, recently growers have noticed increased "strange" weather patters, which is making their work more difficult. But no one is giving up the business yet. And as one grower says, if it gets to a point where its too hot to grow grapes in France, we'll have bigger problems than making wine!
Broadcast History
Produced for Radio France International. Aired December 8, 2007 on RFI and Network Europe.
Transcript
If you open a Medoc, or Cote du Rhone from 2003, you?d be opening wine from what?s said to have been the best year in recent history. You?d be drinking the result of a heat wave in France, which created the optimal balance between sugar and acid in the grapes.
Hot French summers tend to yield good French wines. That would seem to indicate that growers shouldn?t worry about global warming, right? In the short term- maybe not?but in the long run, it is something to worry about.
Bernard Seguin of the INRA- the French institute for agriculture research has been studying the effects of climate change for a while. Wine grapes, he says, are very good indicators of its effects- because the end result is scrutinized so closely:
?Wine is uh- a product where the quality is very important, much more than corn and wheat and so on?
No one notices if this year?s corn is slightly sweeter...
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