date:Jan 15, 2013
ltural Research in Bordeaux, says full-on crisis mode hasnt yet arrived. Things are okay for the moment, he says. We still have the possibility to adapt to the conditions.
As this year showed, its not only warmer temperatures and earlier harvests that are affecting wine, but more volatile weather in general.
This is a bad year a lot of disease, a lot of rain, a late spring and a summer that never arrived and it was dreadful with hail, Lethielleux says. The grapes are all stressed: Theyre ful