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'You can taste the climate change': Winemakers confront extreme weather

By Patricia Cohen
New York Times·
7 mins to read

“You can taste the climate change.”

Frédéric Chaudière, a third-generation winemaker in the French village of Mormoiron, took a sip of white wine and set down his glass.

The tastes of centuries-old varieties are being altered by spiking temperatures, scant rainfall, snap frosts and unpredictable bouts of extreme weather. The hellish summer was the latest reminder of how urgently the US$333 billion (NZ$552b) global wine industry is being forced to adapt. Temperature records were set in Europe, the US, China,

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