There may not have been many Spaniards in attendance - as Jancis recounts in Torres a lone Spaniard on climate change – but Patricia Stefanowicz MW (possibly better known to many Purple...

Pancho Campo's Second World Meeting on Climate Change & Wine held in Barcelona 15-16 Feb seems to have been a great success by all accounts that have so far reached me. At least...

Pancho Campo of  the Wine Academy, Spain, is offering purple pagers a 25% saving on the normal fees for the second Climate Change and Wine conference in the beautiful city of Barcelona on 15...

At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week it was difficult to ignore climate change and discussion of its pervasive effects. You might be interested to see this excellent recent...

David Graves, Saintsbury, Carneros:   So, the article of Diffenbaugh, Greg Jones, et al that was “in press” [as described at the MW Symposium] hit the papers...

Highly respected Western Australian Dr John Gladstones AM recently published his latest book, Wine, Terroir and Climate Change , to huge acclaim from his fellow Australians. Below is evidence...

Brian Croser, founder of Petaluma and senior figure in Australian wine, muses on last week's wine symposium in the nation's capital. We also published his own paper on Riesling. The...

Tenuta dell'Ornellaia in the Maremma region on the Tuscan coast, one of the first so-called Supertuscans, in conjuction with the the University of Florence, is running an experiment to measure...

Anne McLennan of Cleggett Wines, secretary of the Langhorne Creek Winemakers' Association , wrote to me out of the blue from South Australia the other day, and since this is one wine...

Melbourne-based wine writer Max Allen was in the UK this week to a) help his mother pack up prior to a move to Australia and b) conduct a seminar on the increasing popularity and quality of his...

Steve Dutton, Germany: Last night I heard an interview with a spokesman for an Agricultural Organisation (Landwirtschaftsverband, or something like) for Baden Württemberg. He...

James Stark, UK: Irrigation - I have read the Oxford entry on this and I understand the objections to it . Why...