Ep 157: Climate Change and UK Wine with Alistair Nesbitt

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🗓️ 23 April 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Alistair Nesbitt, Ph.D candidate at the Univ of E Anglia, UK discusses his work on climate change & how it affects viticulture & the wine biz. We talk about his fascinating paper: "Climate change drives UK wine production but not without weather shocks".

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine,
0:12.0	but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:23.0	I am thrilled to finally, after many years of thwarted attempts,
0:29.4	to have a world-class expert who knows about climate change and who knows about how that affects vineyards in the world and especially in the UK.
0:40.0	We have on the podcast Alistair Nesbitt and Alistair has a lot of pedigree.
0:45.1	He has a BS honors degree in vidiculture and einology.
0:49.2	He worked in media and public relations which we definitely have to ask you about that. And then worked at night
0:54.5	at night timber which is a huge sparkling did they make still wine also
0:57.9	alister now just huge sparkling and very acclaimed sparkling wine producer in the UK.
1:04.8	He's got a master's from the University of Brighton.
1:08.1	He has, it's now getting a PhD in Environmental Science
1:12.3	at the University of East Anglia and he has just completed an awesome paper called Climate and Weather impacts on UK
1:19.8	VITA culture was published at the beginning of April 2016.
1:24.0	It's a phenomenal paper and I am so glad that we hooked up.
1:28.0	Alistair also has a consultancy.
1:30.6	Alistair, can you talk to us about the consulting work that you do?
1:33.8	Yeah, sure.
1:34.8	I've got a consultancy called Climate Wine Consulting.
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