Wine grapes are the canary in the coal mine for food crops. Premium wine requires a certain weather pattern to produce the best wines. With a little wine experience it's easy to taste the difference between a Napa cabernet from 2011 (cool, rainy) and 2012 (a typical sunny, warm year), for instance. Or the difference between a cab from south Napa County (cool) and upvalley (hot).
Climate change is starting to cause problems for the people growing grapes. It's not always about more heat, but about more variability.
Link: French wine disaster
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