In another 50 or so years, the world map of winemaking regions may be very different, courtesy of global warming.

According to USA Today…

Wine grapes are generally grown in a narrow band of land with average temperatures between 50 and 68 degrees. If it gets much hotter, many world-class wine regions, including southern France and the Napa Valley, may be either at or nearing their optimum climates for the varieties now grown there… A paper published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that if climate change proceeds as expected, by 2100 the viable grape-growing regions in the world will be reduced by nearly 80%.

On the flippity flop, this is good news for vintners in Okanagan valley, Puget Sound, upstate New York, Michigan and Virginia.