‘Wine is like the canary in the coal mine' for climate change

Washington: Many of the world's prime wine-growing regions could shrink dramatically due to climate change, a new study suggests.

Switzerland's Lavaux wine region, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007.

This is because wine grapes are extremely sensitive to the changes in temperature and season that come with climate change.

In fact, if the global temperature rises by 2 degrees by 2100, the regions of the world that are suitable for growing wine grapes could shrink by as much as 56 per cent, according to the study.

And with 4 degrees of warming, 85 per cent of those lands would no longer be able to produce good wines.

Read the story from The Age by Doyle Rice - “‘Wine is like the canary in the coal mine' for climate change."