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Your Favorite Wine Regions Will Feel the Heat | Geographic designations have protected Europe’s greatest wines for over a century. A hotter planet means something has to change. (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] pedestrian@links.hackliberty.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does loss of access to Champaign or other wines with geographic restrictions carry enough weight to get folks to realize that we're too far gone in terms of fighting climate change? It's a material impact that will change the way people interact with wine. Will the winos rise up?

Who am I kidding.... Nothing will change and my children will fight in the water wars of 2045...

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

This is a nuanced question because the market has already spoken and recognized that sparkling wine can be just as good or better even when it doesn’t come from one small, pretentious patch of the world that is desperately clinging to relevancy through corruption.