Irish wine being produced in a warming climate

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Climate change is upon us and brings with it many threats. As the world is warming, it threatens European wine production, but also brings new opportunities for wine making in Ireland.

On a 10-acre site near Wellingtonbridge in Co Wexford, there is work to be done at The Old Roots Vineyard.

Commercial scale wine production would not have been possible in Ireland in the past, but climate change is pushing production northwards in Europe, presenting new opportunities, according to Professor of Viticulture Kees Van Leeuwen from Bordeaux University in France. Climate change means Ireland is an improving location for wine production, according to owner Esperanza Hernandez, who moved to here 20 years ago.

"We spent a year looking for the perfect place back in 2014, and Wexford is one of the best regions. We found this site and did analysis of the soil and the weather.

 

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