Solutions Week: Climate Change Is Coming For Your Wine

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

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In California's Napa Valley, the nation's unofficial wine capital, one varietal reigns supreme: cabernet sauvignon. But climate change is threatening the small blue-black grapes for which cabernet sauvignon is named. Increasingly severe heat waves are taking a toll on the grape variety, especially in late summer during ripening.

To kick off NPR's Climate Solutions Week, climate correspondent Lauren Sommer joins host Regina G. Barber for a deep dive into the innovations wineries are actualizing — and the ways that cabernet farmers and fans alike could learn to adapt.

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0:25.0	So when you go into a wine store or a supermarket,
0:28.0	looking for a bottle of wine, what do you get?
0:30.0	Do you head for the Pinot-Newir section or the Chardonnay section?
0:33.5	Lauren Summer from NPR's Climate Desk is here to make you think twice about that.
0:38.0	Yes, because those are the names of the grapes.
0:41.0	Wait, so Pino-Noir, that's the name of the grape?
0:44.0	Yeah, it is.
0:45.0	Yeah, I feel like I should have known that.
0:46.0	I feel like I should have known that.
0:47.0	No, it's confusing.
0:49.0	Because we've actually been trained to choose wines by the grape it's made of at least US wines.
0:55.5	And there are many wine grapes that you probably don't know.
0:59.2	Like I actually went to see some of them.
1:01.2	This is Charbono. So Charbono is one of the more kind of similar
1:05.6	great varieties to Cabernet I would say. That's Avery Helin, winemaker at
1:09.8	Larkmead Vineyards in Napa Valley, we were walking among rows of vines with
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