Andrew Jefford Investigates: Is Germany truly the new 'Pinot Paradise' for wine Lovers?

Vineyard terraces in the Kaiserstuhl area of Baden-Württemberg.Droughts, heat spikes, hailstorms, wildfires: the catastrophic effects of climate change on the world’s vineyards are evident.
There is some talk of ‘solutions’ and more of mitigation, but the truth is that hundreds of billions of tonnes of fossil carbon is now squatting in our atmosphere that wasn’t there in the pre-phylloxera era. And it’s stuck. Nature’s removal of carbon from the atmospher