Thursday, January 25, 2007

The New Canari

"Global warming is altering the world wine map," writes the L.A.Times. "Imagine a world in which the best sparkling wines come from Surrey in southern England [...] where Monterey Bay is home to California's best Cabernet Sauvignons, and Sweden produces world-class Rieslings [...] A growing number of climatologists are warning that by the turn of the next century, such a radically altered wine map could be the new reality [...] Wine is the canary in the climate-change coal mine..."
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