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Are we witnessing the death of wine? Climate change is changing how, and mostly, where winemakers produce wine. Increasingly erratic weather extremes are putting the world's winemakers to the ultimate test. The classic fine wine regions, once temperate, are growing hotter, erasing the classic profiles of our most beloved regions. Many of the negative effects of climate change on the wine world are already apparent: wines with staggeringly high alcohol levels (also often a style-choice), the resulting unbalanced wines are losing their aging potential (good-bye Bordeaux en primeur system), and lower yields due to both rogue spring hail and snow storms and increasing summer temperatures. Vintage variation has taken on a whole new meaning. But new opportunities are also presenting themselves: there are those wine regions that will cease viticulture, but there are also those that will adapt, improve and emerge. This book will cover each major wine region in the world, analysing the likely trends and their responses. And it will cover the ways wine producers are coping with this very quickly changing landscape.

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The British wine critic, L. J. JOHNSON-BELL, is an award-winning wine writer and author. Born in the US, she studied and lived in France before moving to England in 1996. Former Editor-in-Chief of Vintage International Magazine, in Paris, she regularly works as a wine competition judge and has contributed to Taste Italia, WINE, Drinks, The Henley Standard, Decanter, Portrait, Wine & Spirit, and many other publications. She is currently the wine columnist for France Today Magazine, writes for radio, as well as recently setting up her production company, Bellissima Films, for her TV & Film wine-themed projects. She lives in London, Oxford, and Venice.

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