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"Climate change has made vines increasingly vulnerable," the group said in an opinion column in the daily Le Monde. "Wine," they added, "is the result of an alchemy between a native soil, or terroir, and generations of winemakers. Today this alchemy is in danger."
Because of the global rise in temperatures, French wines "now have a higher alcohol content, their texture is heavier, there is too much sun in the range of flavours, our wines could lose their souls", the column said….
A wine label from Château de Bellet, a winery in the Appellation Bellet in Provence, France, shot by Gerard Cohen, who has generously released the image into the public domain
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