A new report shows where has wine production dried up the most in Europe.
Global wine production reached a historic low in 2023 and climate change could be to blame, a new report has revealed.
The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) says the drink hit its lowest level since 1962. This intergovernmental organisation has 50 member states, representing 75 per cent of the world’s vineyard area.
Experts blame “extreme environmental conditions” including droughts and fires that have been driving the downward trend in production.
Okay, now shit is getting serious.
Well, it’s also hitting chocolate, coffee and beer.
If you watch John Oliver, the chocolate part is kind of a good thing even though it sucks for us. Well, not us. I refuse to have anything chocolate after watching that episode.
Havent watched it all season because they shifted the upload schedule. It no longer pops up on my youtube.
It’s up now. I warn you not to watch it if you ever want to eat chocolate again without feeling very guilty.
Fun fact: tons of wheat and corn farmers had shit yields last year in my area. It’s not even that the temperature was higher, the weather was just all over the place and it fucked the plants.
Of course, it’s government policy to overproduce so much wheat and corn we can feed a substantial chunk of the world, so it’ll take longer before the basic staples start getting hit, but just you wait.
Scandinavian wine is going to be a thing soon…
Ice wine is already a thing and it is, apparently, produced in Sweden. Although a fraction of what Canada produces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_wine
I’ve never had it myself, but I keep meaning to try. It’s generally not the sort of thing restaurants on here have on their wine list and I hate spending a bunch of money on a bottle of wine only to find that I don’t like it.
It’s a dessert wine, very sweet
So I have heard, and I love port so I’d probably enjoy it, but it’s always a risk.
Already is, these guys can get fussy, uncooperative Pinot Noir to ripen in gatdam Skåne!
I work in very high end restaurants.
Im starting to see wines come from appalations i would never consider to be “good” regions for these grapes, granted they are some of the oldest wine producing regions in the world.
Give it about 5-8 years, regions like champagne or barolo will be surpassed, replaced, and eventually considered low tier wines - though that last part will take a decade or two.
Its simultaneously exciting (yay new “classics”!) And terrifying.
I like this take. Tell me more: Do you think growers from those regions are already thinking ahead and buying up land for vineyards in locations that may do/are doing well in this “new climate”? If so, where are they and/or what are the Appalachians you are referring to? What we might consider New World Wines or something totally left of centre?
Maybe french officials will start to notice climate change now…
Wasn’t there something recently, that French wine farmers had a huge overproduction last year, so the government bought up their wine to distill into industrial alcohol to subsidize them?
Why are we enslaving ourselves to farmers that are first to destroy the environment they depend on and then also first to demand government bailouts?
On defense of farmers, why does the French government saving the wine industry a bad thing? They take the overstock that would have otherwise driven the prices to an unsustainable low and covert it into a useful product for another customer base?
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
If one year they need help because of overproduction and the next year they need help because of underproduction, for a product that can be easily stored for years, then we are obviously getting duped.
Well, guess wine is now out of my price range soon.
Wait till you find out about the lantern flies in PA and NY
OK spill
The liberal will finally be scratched by their lack of access to wine.
Maybe stop drugging yourselves with alcohol so it’s not necessary to go through this? Really…what’s up this humans needing fucking poison to enjoy hanging out with friends…?
I think you’re missing the point to such a degree it’s almost mind blowing.
Good, fuck the wine industry. They take up all this land that could be natural habitat for a luxury product, and then force migrant farmers to work in the smoke during the fire season.
