In Italy’s Drought-Hit Vineyards, the Harvest of a Changing Climate<br />ed and too fat, with too high an alcohol content." He said<br />that they knew how to deal with anomalies, but that if intense heat waves became permanent, "We’ll have to plant bananas and pineapples." That, of course, would be a tragedy to the world’s wine connoisseurs, who have come to worship this region’s Barolos and Barbarescos, nebbiolos and barberas. that are not good for the wine; the berries become unbalanc<br />Barolo said that The grapes are beautiful, the heat’s good for them,<br />In Barbaresco’s wine store, set up in a deconsecrated church, Michela Adriano, a young winemaker, said<br />that while some skeptics thought 2017 would be recalled as the vintage of climate change hysteria, some leading winemakers were thinking hard about how to adapt to the new abnormal.<br />But he feared that the lack of interplay of warm days and cool nights, of summer and autumn, threatened to overproduce the sugar and alcohol of a Barolo wine<br />that should be elegantly composed, like "a symphony." "There is no more balance," he said, lamenting the vanishing of the seasons.<br />" Ion Bruno, 50, a worker who has been picking the grapes for the last three decades, said as he clipped a stem.<br />that It’s 20 days earlier on average due to climate change,<br />Piero Comino said that People are picking grapes in their bathing suits, and they used to be in gloves and overcoats!<br />Italo Stupino said that It went off the charts,
