While research scientists paint a dire picture for the great Chateaux of France and the luxury brands of Napa Valley, places like the mountains of northern Europe and the cool U.S. Moreover, few grape-growing regions on earth are as cool as the Finger Lakes region when winter temperature swings plummet (the Midwest comes to mind). Although it has been lengthening, the growing season is still relatively short. Yet, with evidence for climate change all around us, even in fruits other than grapes, the elevated Finger Lakes region remains a cool grape growing region. Since then, it remains problematic, but red wine production has gained ground, so to speak. When I moved to the Finger Lakes region in the 1980s to produce wine, although it was being produced by one or two wineries, top-notch red wine wasn’t on the radar because of the region’s short growing season. Winter in the Finger Lakes: photo by Anne Kiley It boosts productivity and helps you establish a proactive, real- time decisionmaking process that ensures better process efficiency and higher executive accountability.
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The need for more irrigation will only make California water shortages worse. The ApprovalMax mobile app for both iPhone and Android platforms facilitates raising purchase orders and approving all kinds of requests for Xero and QuickBooks Online. Predictions for future Napa and Sonoma vintages include hot, dry trends. Neither is the news good for California’s luxury wine industry. You can't get away with flabby wine at high prices for too long. The Harvard/NASA researchers claim that what happened in 2003 may be a harbinger of the European wine future, and that is not good news for places like Bordeaux and Burgundy, where wine prices give new meaning to the word luxury. Wines from cooler mountainous European regions fared better that year, but even they showed more softness than their usual crisp acidity imparts. With high heat comes lower grape acidity, the backbone of wine therefore, a great deal of the 2003 European wines were flabby and lackluster.
Throughout the European continent, the summer of 2003 was quite hot, making the grape harvest the earliest ever recorded. Are earlier harvests good or bad news for the financial health of the wine industry?