GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE IN BARCELONA
Tasmania identified as a new premier wine region

An extract from the Los Angeles Times report on the global climate change conference in Barcelona offers yet further evidence of Tasmania's ascendancy as a premium wine region.

"....Eventually, the global map of viable winemaking regions will shift toward the poles, northward in the Northern Hemisphere and southward in the Southern Hemisphere. Warm vineyards in today's warmest areas, such as those in California's Central Valley, may be abandoned. And new parts of the globe including England, Denmark, Belgium and the Patagonia regions of Chile and Argentina will emerge as high-quality producers.

New premier regions

THE narrow coastal regions where cool ocean breezes provide relief from rising temperatures, including Russian River Valley, TASMANIA and Puget Sound, will be premier wine areas -- along with high-elevation deserts in places as different as China and Arizona."

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