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Crushed

How a Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2022 more...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Overview
  • Concrete Examples
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Food and travel writer Brian Freedman offers an across-the-globe tour of the ice, hail, fires and floods that threaten the world’s makers of wine and spirits. He finds that these vintners and distillers are updating their ancient arts to survive the threat of climate change. Intrepid corporate and craft producers in France, California, South America, the south of England and the deserts of Israel are coping with warmer temperatures, violent storms and other effects of increasingly extreme, unpredictable weather. In these absorbing profiles, Freedman shows how vineyards and distilleries are adapting to climate change while battling against it by pioneering sustainable methods of agriculture.

Take-Aways

  • Wine and spirit makers have dealt with climate and the vicissitudes of weather for centuries.
  • Wildfires threaten the wine industry in California.
  • In France, extreme weather events occur with increasing frequency. 

About the Author

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel and food writer who contributes to Food & Wine digital, Forbes.com, Whisky Advocate and SevenFifty Daily.