Impact on Grapes

Question 1

What is the general observation of the changes across the globe in terms of climate change?

Answer 1

The warming towards the northern hemisphere is faster than the southern.

Question 2

In general every degree of warming corresponds to an earliness of…

Answer 2

5-10 days

Question 3

What is the average consideration for all of Europe with climate change?

Answer 3

We add advancement to all phenological stages

Question 4

__________ is the primary feature that is altered by the climate change.

Answer 4

The length of growing season

Question 5

What can we see from the chart from Rhone?

Answer 5

These are the harvest dates from 1945 to 2000, we can see 20 days in advancement in 55 years, that is a lot and this is everywhere.

Question 6

With increasing temperatures we also have an increase in what?

Answer 6

Alcohol percentages in wines

Question 7

• All varieties have ________ for optimum quality and production
  characteristics

Answer 7

inherent climatic thresholds

Question 8

what can be seen from the Winegrape price sensitive to temperature graph

Answer 8

We can see a relationship between temperature and price of Californian wine. At 28 degrees C there is an apex and after that falls