Worries on the Vine
IN the coming decades, might oenophiles be debating the subtle aromas and delicate flavors of all the great new wines coming out of Saskatchewan?
Maybe. Global warming affects grapes just as surely as any other crop. With wine, though, where slightly more shade or sun can profoundly affect quality and character, the effects of climate change exert a particularly strong influence.
It is not clear yet just how extensively or in precisely what ways the wine business will be changed as the planet heats up, though wine watchers have their theories. “Get ready to say bye-bye to French Bordeaux and hello to British champagne,” warns the anonymously written blog called Global Warming ... Global Warning.
In an effort to get a handle on the problem, viticulturists and other experts from around the world (as well as Al Gore, via satellite) are assembling in Barcelona this weekend for the International Conference on Climate Change & Wine.
viticulturist(′vit·ə′kəl·chə·rəst) (agriculture) A grower of grapes.
At the last conference, in 2006, the Wine Academy of Spain said that grapes worldwide are ripening faster, sugar and alcohol content are rising, and the aroma is losing its complexity. A changing climate could alter the character of regional wines. The pinot noirs of Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, which need cool temperatures and great care to thrive, could be endangered, for example. The cabernet sauvignons of Napa and Sonoma Counties in California could be at risk if that region becomes hotter and drier — more like California’s Central Valley growing region.
The effects of warming are diverse and hard to predict. Some wine regions may see drought; others, too much rain.
Not all the news is bad. Some winemakers in New Zealand, for example, are looking forward to the effects of climate change. Warmer temperatures there could help them produce more of their high-quality wines and expand into more varietals, notes Robert Knox of the blog Environmental Graffiti.
On the other hand, the Australian wine industry is “feeling the effects of a prolonged drought,” Mr. Knox notes. “Grape production has fallen drastically, leading to rising prices and a reduction in the production of the reasonably priced, good quality wines that have made the country’s reputation.”
Richard Parsons, Serial Fixer of Media and Finance Giants, Dies at 76
Mr. Parsons’s lengthy résumé is a catalog of corporate emergencies at Time Warner, Citigroup and the Los Angeles Clippers.
Mr. Parsons’s winding career tracked the biggest companies in American media and finance — and the biggest problems. Time and again, he stepped in when things looked catastrophic and put his smooth leadership style to work, disentangling Gordian knots and assuaging discontented shareholders.
Mr. Parsons, a jazz-loving oenophile who served on the board of the Apollo Theater and owned a Tuscan winery, rose to the top of the business world in an era when he was frequently the only Black executive in the boardroom. A self-described “Rockefeller Republican,” Mr. Parsons spoke out on social justice issues in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, signed a letter protesting a 2021 law that imposed restrictions on Georgia voters and co-founded the Equity Alliance, a fund that backs early-stage ventures led by women and people of color.
帕森斯先生曲折的職業生涯追蹤了美國媒體和金融界最大的公司——以及最大的問題。當事情看起來是災難性的時候，他一次又一次地介入，並運用他流暢的領導風格發揮作用，解決棘手的問題並安撫不滿的股東。 帕森斯先生是一位熱愛爵士樂的品酒愛好者，曾擔任阿波羅劇院的董事會成員，並擁有一家托斯卡納酒莊，在他登上商界頂峰的時代，他經常是董事會中唯一的黑人高階主管。自稱為「洛克菲勒共和黨人」的帕森斯先生在2020 年喬治·弗洛伊德被謀殺後就社會正義問題發表了講話，他簽署了一封信，抗議2021 年對佐治亞州選民施加限制的法律，並共同創立了平等聯盟(Equity Alliance)。
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: a connoisseur of fine wines; a grape nut Synonyms:
grapevine
の意味 -
grápevìne
- 音節grápe • vìne
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