Walter Sobchak writes:
Unseasonable late April weather damaged vineyards in France and England
They warned us that the delicate vineyards could be severely damaged by man caused global climate change. We wouldn’t listen and see what we got:
French Bordeaux vineyards could lose half of harvest due to frost on Sat May 6, 2017
REUTERS BORDEAUX, France “Bordeaux vineyards in southwest France could lose about half of their harvest this year after two nights of frost damaged the crop at the end of April, a wine industry official said on Saturday. … Wines from the Cognac, Bergerac, and Lot-et-Garonne regions had also been affected … ‘For Bordeaux wines…we estimate that the impact will be a loss of about 50 percent, depend on how many buds can regrow'”
English vineyards report ‘catastrophic’ damage after severe April frost
GUARDIAN.COM “Chris White, the chief executive of Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey, said up to 75% of its crop was damaged by last week’s sub-zero temperatures: “The temperature dropped to -6C and at that level it causes catastrophic damage to buds,” he said. White said staff had worked in vain using special fans and heaters to protect the vineyard, which at 265 acres in the UK’s biggest, after an Arctic blast swept across the UK. … ‘It’s been a stark reminder of the difficulties faced by wine producers in the country, and yes … at this moment we are asking ourselves whether we were mad to try and grow vines in England,’ said Wenman”
WINESPECTATOR.COM French Winemakers Weathering Worst Frost in 25 Years
Cold weather struck France’s young vine buds again this week, and Bordeaux is the latest region to suffer frost damage. Farther north, Burgundy and Champagne also weathered cold conditions and frost. Damage reports are incomplete so far, mainly because winegrowers have been busy preparing anti-frost measures.
Bordeaux’s Right Bank Hit Hard
“We can already estimate that we have lost nearly half of the potential crop,” said Xavier Coumau, president of Bordeaux’s Syndicate of Wine and Spirits Courtiers.
Many are calling it the worst frost since 1991, as temperatures dropped to nearly 26° F in some spots. Damage has been reported on the Right Bank, including in Pomerol and St.-Emilion—though the plateau of St.-Emilion was spared—as well as Pessac and Graves and even up in the western edge of the Médoc.
“It is rather dramatic,” Stéphane Derenoncourt, proprietor of Domaine de l’A in Castillon and consultant to dozens of Right Bank estates, told Wine Spectator. “Only the plateau and the tops of slopes are spared. There is damage everywhere, sometimes 100 percent. We haven’t seen everything yet, and it is fo
We need to learn that the truly insidious thing about Climate Change is that it just doesn’t mean the world is getting warmer, it also means that frosts will occur in late April in locations as far south as Green Bay, WI.
What is happening is part of our current climate. Stoping the climate from changing, as if we really could, will only lock in this happenstance.
Great Lakes Ice coverage: http://www.weather.gov/apx/greatlakesice
2016, this date 4.4%
2017 12.2%
What no one ever saw The Big Lebowski?
Walter Sobchack knows about Vietnam and bowling, not about wine and climate change.
Most populated areas in the Northern Hemisphere continue running unseasonably cold???
Define “unseasonably”, just for the fun of it.
A negative temperature variation, which if continued, would potentially prevent this year from being the warmest EVAH!
Misanthropic environmental conservatives should get their act together. With all the taxpayers money poured into this, it’s about time the weather stabilised on a much sunnier and warmer mode over here. Any more of your type of warming, my ancestors will freeze to death at childbirth.
Nicely written.
Sure you don’t mean “your descendants” instead of ancestors?
“We need to learn that the truly insidious thing about Climate Change is that it just doesn’t mean the world is getting warmer, it also means that frosts will occur in late April in locations as far south as Green Bay, WI.”
it also means great skiing in he US contrary to the claims: Squaw Valley Will Stay Open Past July 4th for the first time in it’s history.
https://www.iceagenow.info/squaw-valley-will-stay-open-past-july-4th/#more-21371
Lol global cooling is now man made. It will never end.
It’s interesting that the very cold winter of the Battle of the Bulge was during the run down to solar minimum which is about where we are now. A stronger jet stream during solar minimum is associated with cooler temps at least in NH temps.
I checked my black currants out back (eastern Ontario Canada) after our snow last night. They seemed to love it. Maybe I can make a French Burgundy out of it and put it on the market. If people complain, I’ll say it was climate change what done it.
I feel a new category of wine coming on.
We have already Cabernet Sauvignon.
How about Climatechange Sauvignon?
Of course, it would be pronounced Frenchly, something like “Clee – ma – shaunge”.
Kids just won’t know what wine tastes like anymore.
Hah-hah-hah! Awesome!!
So the wine industry in the U.K, which has been non-existent since the MWP, has yet to get back to producing wine despite the unprecedented warmiest warmer warming that is the most warm evah! And this will probably set it back until the next cold snap. It was a nice try, but it’s probably time to switch the vineyards out for cabbage patches.
As if it was unusual to have frost even in May… sigh
But I really like: “We can already estimate that we have lost nearly half of the potential crop,”
“White said staff had worked in vain using special fans and heaters to protect the vineyard”
What, a man wasn’t able to warm his climate by running industrial equipment? Maybe he should have started a decade or more ago.
It just doesn’t mean the world is getting warmer?
No, it means it’s getting colder, wetter, dryer, windier, calmer, and virtually any other weather event you can think of , all caused by anthropogenic CO2 contribution! It’s science and that settles it! So shut up !