From the annals of good, green karma: The Grove Mill winery in Marlborough, NZ has taken environmental commitment to a new level with CarboNZero® certification. The winery has released the world’s first CarboNZero® wines, which are also among the world’s first carbon-neutral consumer products. Grove Mill has challenged itself to ...

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Global Warming – what does this portend for wine growers, wine makers and consumers? What adaptive changes will need to be made in existing wine regions as global temperatures increase? Will wine ... the full effects if global warming, one thing remains clear – the challenges of growing and making wine ... world of wine, brought on by global warming. Sponsor: North Berkeley Imports...

Where, oh where, have all the grapes gone? I am not going to preach (too much) or make a huge song and dance of this issue called global warming-even though environmental issues are specialty of mine. But I will say...

What’s the effect of global warming on the wine industry? It’s a query wine scientists have been pondering for some time, and lately a handful of winemakers are asking themselves whether the higher alcohol levels we have seen in many table wines are related to this phenomenon...

Posted by Marc Hanes: Not sure who may be aware of this website (no affiliation) but it seems to offer some balance among those who possess widely diverging opinions on "global warming." Since wine production is agricultural [sic] and agriculture depends on its environment, per...

Chateau Margaux general director Paul Pontallier has endorsed his fellow producers' views on climate change: it is no bad thing.

I'm feeling ill. Very ill. Currently confined to bed, and there will be no wine tonight. It's frustrating being ill because it affects how clearly I think, and even though I have some time on my hands, I don't feel like making the most of it because of a lack of energy. Started a poll on erobertparker.com about global warming and wine. It was prompted by frustration that previous threads...

I've been thinking more about global warming. Some thoughts: The data do seem to suggest that there has been a rise in temperatures in wine regions over the last 50 years. That much is uncontroversial. See here, here and here for examples. There's also the survey by French researcher Isabelle Chiune and here colleagues that was published in Nature in 2004. They used historical records...