Wine and Climate Change
Miguel Torres: "I'm an oenologist & realised the consequences for the vineyards were going to be terrible"
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- Category: Climate Change Leadership Porto Climate Change Leadership Porto
- Published: 26 March 2019 26 March 2019
Miguel Torres has long been the most outspoken proponent for action to face up to climate change in the wine industry. In this candid interview, he talks about the pressures his global business faces today and the actions his team has taken in response, to mitigate and adapt. He also emphasises that action on climate change is in his company and family DNA and that he is joining the youth movement in demonstrating for climate action.
Interview: Gerard Bertrand discusses biodynamics, climate change, and why he strives for the taste of “somewhere” rather than “something”
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- Category: Climate Change Leadership Porto Climate Change Leadership Porto
- Published: 26 March 2019 26 March 2019
Former professional rugby player turned winemaker, Gerard Bertrand, currently runs 13 wine estates and has won accolades such as the IWC’s Red Winemaker of the Year 2012.
Here Gerard talks to us about the special role wine plays in our lives and, as we confront increasing environmental challenges, how the wine industry can set an example in agriculture, pushing for organic and biodynamic practices.
Interview with Prof. Olga Barbosa: Wine, climate change and biodiversity - a new balance with nature
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- Category: Climate Change Leadership Porto Climate Change Leadership Porto
- Published: 25 March 2019 25 March 2019
The five Mediterranean climates of the world are havens for biodiversity. It is also where humans grow most of their crops, including wine, and where climate extremes are a threat to human life, wildlife and plant-life.
Wine industry comes together to confront climate change
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- Category: Wine and Climate Change Wine and Climate Change
- Published: 16 March 2019 16 March 2019
As 1.4million young people take to the streets to send a clear message to their elders that climate action is critical, so has the wine industry decided to pool knowledge and experience in order to tackle what is, for many of our most cherished wine regions, a threat both to style and quality, as it is existential to many others.
Bordeaux: A difficult conversations about climate change
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- Category: Wine and Climate Change Wine and Climate Change
- Published: 18 January 2019 18 January 2019
As the impacts of climate change accelerate, and emissions, rather than going down, actually rose by 2.7% in 2018 (an increase from 1.6% in 2017), the conversations emerging from within wine producing regions is both necessary and brave.
Interview: How winemakers in Bordeaux are responding to climate change
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- Category: Wine and Climate Change Wine and Climate Change
- Published: 21 September 2018 21 September 2018
While we were tasting with Stéphane Dupuch at Chateau Sainte-Marie, a conversation began about how winemakers are responding to the challenges they are facing from weather extremes as a result of changing climate. Stéphane's answers are candid and insightful in giving us a snapshot of the current situation.
Fladgate Partnership CEO, Adrian Bridge, responds to climate change impacts in the vineyard
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- Category: Wine and Climate Change Wine and Climate Change
- Published: 13 July 2018 13 July 2018
Wine production in Europe has fallen to 50-year lows due to the impacts of extreme weather events including hail, frost, drought, and rot. No one knows this better than Adrian Bridge, CEO of the Fladgate Partnership, a company that owns some of the biggest names in port including Taylor, Croft, and Fonseca.
AOC Ventoux is breaking through
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- Category: Wine and Climate Change Wine and Climate Change
- Published: 27 June 2018 27 June 2018
It’s a scorching summer evening in Regent’s Park and what is my glass is of premium importance. The fact that Britain is experiencing a thorough multi-day licking from the sun, is itself unconventional, as are the pourers at this evenings tasting: 4 wine producers from the appellation AOC Ventoux in the southern Rhone.
Champagne and climate change - interview with Thibaut de Mailloux
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- Category: Wine and Climate Change Wine and Climate Change
- Published: 25 May 2017 25 May 2017
We caught up with Thibaut de Mailloux - Director of Communications, CIVC - to talk about how the Champagne region is responding to call on winemaking regions to take action to reduce emissions and become more sustainable.
Champagne Taittinger's bright future in England
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- Category: Wine and Climate Change Wine and Climate Change
- Published: 04 May 2017 04 May 2017
Introducing Taittinger in Kent: Domaine Evremond
Much of the wine news is rightly centred on the recent frosts that have now claimed some substantial victims in southern England right on the back of losses in Champagne, Burgundy, Bordeaux and the Loire.
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