Green Options » wine growing http://greenoptions.com/tag/wine-growing Posts tagged 'wine growing' Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:07:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en UK Crops To Suffer: Farming Practices to Alter http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/03/uk-crops-to-suffer-farming-practices-to-alter/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/03/uk-crops-to-suffer-farming-practices-to-alter/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:07:37 +0000 Pem Charnley http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/03/uk-crops-to-suffer-farming-practices-to-alter/ apricot.jpgI’m quite the dreadful snob when it comes to the consumption of alcohol. Whereas the less intellectual types may sit on verandas, sipping red wine, discussing Voltaire, I’m indoors, crate of cheap lager at my side, football on the telly.

Whereas they may swill the grape juice, inhale the aroma and swoon over the subtleties cascading o’er the taste buds, I’m already on my third can and the match yet to start.

But my, how I jolted when I came across a story suggesting that English vineyards may, in decades to come, suffer because our summers are set to become too hot.

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