This past Sunday, 60 Minutes broadcast a special report on how climate change is affecting the wine industry. The piece focused especially on France and England, and how wine producers are adapting to changes in the climate, including drought, flood, increasing temperatures in both winter and summer seasons and longer growing seasons. Of particular note is the burgeoning sparkling wine production in southern England. Already there are quite a few wineries that are giving the Champagne region and its dominance of high quality fizzy wines a run for its money. A few years before the pandemic, I had the opportunity to sample some of England's finest sparklers and was duly impressed. So on this New Year's eve, you may want to alter your buying habits and look for some British bubbly. Cheers!
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