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Climate change: Warm winter ruins German ice wine harvest

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Climate change: Warm winter ruins German ice wine harvest

by Mike_F » Sun Mar 01, 2020 9:56 am

From the BBC - "Germany's harvest of ice wine ... has failed for the first time because the winter has been too warm. None of Germany's 13 wine-growing regions had the necessary temperatures of -7C to produce the wine in 2019."

More at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51695464
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Re: Climate change: Warm winter ruins German ice wine harves

by David M. Bueker » Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:04 pm

Eiswein has not been its true type since about 2004. Weather conditions have caused too much botrytis, obscuring the crystalline clarity of the pradikat.
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