British scientists from Oxford University examined the relationship between climatic conditions and wine quality. To work published In the scientific journal iScience.
Experts analyzed the scores given by wine critics from France’s famous Bordeaux wine region for 50 years. The team found that weather conditions affect wine quality throughout the year, not just during the growing season. In general, high-quality wines are associated with cooler, wetter winters, hot, dry summers, and cool, dry autumns.
“We found evidence that temperature and rainfall effects occur throughout the year: from bud opening, as the grapes grow and ripen, during harvest and even during the winter months when the plant is dormant,” Andrew Wood reports. .
The researchers concluded that the quality indicators of Bordeaux wines tended to improve between 1950 and 2020. This may be due to the warming of the climate in Bordeaux, but also to the introduction of new technologies in winemaking.
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