Winemakers Are Poised to Lose Another Vital Tool to Climate Change

BY KATHLEEN WILLCOX Grapes are extremely malleable. Plant the same grape variety in different soils, alter the length of time they’re fermented or vessel they’re aged in, and the taste of the resulting wine will be vastly different. But the climate grapes grow in, and temperature fluctuation from day to night called diurnal shift, have some of…