Climate change is impacting wine production in all parts of the world in highly variable ways that may change the expression of terroir, from rapid loss of viability right through to highly beneficial aspects that increase suitability
Climate has a predominant role on growth and development of grapevines. Therefore, climate change represents an important challenge to the winemaking sector.
We depict the main features of five viticulture agroclimatic indices for 626 wine growing regions within 41 countries.
This paper presents a review of wine regions in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of North America. The PNW consists of the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho and the province of British Columbia.
Ground water in the interior valleys of California is contaminated with nitrates derived from agricultural activities, primarily the over-fertilization of crops.