It’s question I’ve put to every winemaker I’ve interviewed over the past five years. “Have you seen the effects of climate change and global warming in your region?”
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| Stefano Ruini believes global warming will have an indelible effect on most European wineries in the next ten years |
Almost everyone answers yes, to one degree or another, and recently even the winemakers of Bordeaux and Burgundy, where they have always craved sun and heat, have begun having doubts about their benefits. In warmer climates the effects are now rigorously being monitored and vintners express both concern and ignorance as to what will happen just within the next decade.
Over dinner in New York, I posed these questions to Stefano Ruini, 57, Technical Director and Enologist since 2017 of Luce winery in Montalcino, Tuscany, where Sangiovese clones (hundreds tested for their sturdy quality by Banfi Vintners in the 1980s and donated to the region’s other wineries) transformed the region’s wine production.
Read John Mariani’s story from Forbes magazine - “Don’t Believe In Global Warming? Just Ask A Tuscan Winemaker.”
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