Wine Country Growers Boost Research to Combat Climate Change

 

Harvest season has just begun in California’s Napa Valley but the $160 billion wine industry could dry up if something isn’t done to combat a changing climate.

As a grape ripens, the compounds within it perform a delicate, shifting balancing act for the right taste, texture and color so any shift in climate conditions can be detrimental.

Andy Beckstoffer has been growing grapes and providing them for some of the biggest names in Wine Country since the early 1970s. He’s concerned about his future harvest…

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