Some regions of the world risk no longer being able to produce wine profitably due to global warming. Conversely, new wine regions could emerge at latitudes and higher altitudes.
“Climate change is modifying the geography of wine, there will be winners and losers,” says Cornelis van Leeuwen, professor of viticulture at Bordeaux Sciences Agro. Some 90% of traditional wine-growing regions in coastal and lowland areas of Spain, Italy and Greece would be threatened with disappearance.