As temperatures rise, vintners plan for the future.
and who is the chair of the Napa Valley Vintners’ Environmental Stewardship Committee, says, “This is not just a Napa Valley issue—it is a planetary issue. All agriculture is at some risk. Note the massive flooding in the Midwest last spring or the devastating fires in Australia. There are many more examples.”
What she and winemaker Aron Weinkauf are doing about it is what forward-looking vintners around the state are doing: figuring out strategies for the future. At Spottswoode, that means increasing biodiversity to deal with higher pest pressures, for instance, by trialing and planting different rootstocks, and using technology to monitor water use more precisely. Dan Petroski, the winemaker at
, has planted an experimental vineyard plot with alternative, more-heat-resistant grapes such as Aglianico and Touriga Nacional. “The future of agriculture here is understanding and dealing with climate change,” he says., which produces tens of millions of bottles of wine each year, conducted an energy audit and determined that using lighter glass would cut their carbon emissions footprint by 3% and save on costs at the same time.
“The quality of California wine has gotten to where it is through a lot of difficulties—look at phylloxera in the late ’80s—and we’ve handled them. It involves change: what vine trellises look like, how to prune, what clones to plant. But our grandchildren will be drinking Napa Valley Cabernet. No doubt about it.”
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