Global warming a bonus for the UK winemakers

We could be praising the merits of a superbly subtle English Chardonnay in a few decades’ time if the predictions for global warming are correct. According to climatologist Gregory Jones from Southern Oregon University, who presented research at the first World Conference on Global Warming and Wine in Barcelona last month, the growing seasons in the northern part of France and southern England are projected to warm 1.3 – 1.6 degrees Centigrade by 2050. He said ‘If this amount of warming is realised, then southern England would be a much more viable cool-climate wine-production region.’