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Your Glass of Wine May Depend on This California Winery
Using methods old and new, Jackson Family Wines is creating a template for how the wine industry can survive radical change in the weather.
How to save the wine industry.
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The crippling heat and wildfires that swept through the vineyards of France in recent weeks portend another bitter cost of climate change: Your fine wine is on the line.
Climate costs to wine producers have been mounting for years in France and well beyond, from Northern California to southern Australia. Drought and heat in 2019 cut France’s total wine production by 12%, and this year’s lethal combination of heatwaves, frosts, hailstorms and wildfires could slash production even more.