The wine resists everything, even if it will change. Certainly, global warming is pushing growers to adapt and we will probably make wine in regions far north in the future. The fact remains that the French remain very large consumers.
According to the Sowine barometer published this weekend, one in three French people regularly drinks wine. Bordeaux is their favorite wine in Burgundy and Champagne. Tomorrow, the wine will still be there but it will have changed.
The pinard is universal and eternal! He has been through all the storms for nearly 10,000 years, the date of his probable appearance. The vines have survived the battles of civilization, world wars and climatic upheavals. Nothing stops the harvest, not even hurricanes or shelling. Today, a question arises with the climatic upheaval: what if our vineyard did not resist overheating?
These wines have already changed because of the heat.
More sun means more sugar and less acidity in the grapes, so beefier nectars have gained one to two degrees in recent decades. And the trend should accelerate. In the field, the winemakers find parades by advancing the harvest by a few weeks, by cutting the vines to better protect the grapes from sunburns. Even INRA (the institute of wine and vine) tests old disappeared grapes, more resistant to hot weather. The wine, tomorrow (in 2030 or 2050), will not have the same taste but the important thing is that Bordeaux remains a Bordeaux.
Will there still be Bordeaux in 2050?
It's hard to say because the vines are going to move. The threat weighs heavily on the vineyards to the south: Italy, Spain, Georgia, Lebanon, Greece and part of France. On the other hand, the north is a new land of conquest like Brittany, Germany or even the United Kingdom where big Champagne houses have already acquired land especially in the Ken to plant vines and produce sparkling wine. range".
Morality, the wine is not dead. But tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, we will not drink more Chianti or Croze Hermitage.
No, the great fashion will be to serve on a "floe flavor" sorbet, a great Greenland wine with very frank aromas of lichen and Arctic birch. It will change Beaujolais and its taste of banana.
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