Ruinart creates a Champagne for climate change
Faced with climate change that shortens the growing season in Champagne and results in riper, less acidic grapes, winemakers are exploring methods to adjust their winemaking techniques to the region’s changing conditions. One winemaker even claims to have created “the blanc de blancs of the future.”
Frédéric Panaïotis of Ruinart addressed the challenges facing winemakers in Champagne during a meeting with British journalists in London on 3 July. He explained that earlier flowering and increasingly warmer summers are shortening the grape growing season in the region.
This climatic shift also favours grape maturation during the long, hot, sunny days of August rather than in the cooler months of September or October.
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