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Burgundy

Burgundy in a Warming World

Six hundred years of harvest dates, and what the last forty have done

The ban des vendanges, 1400 to now · 4 chapters · 11 min read

What forty vintages have done to a region built for the edge of ripeness.

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The Heat

  1. 01Harvest Dates, Century by CenturyOn six hundred years of municipal paperwork, and what it shows.
  2. 02Ripeness, Alcohol and the End of ChaptalisationOn a routine addition that has become unnecessary, and the new problem underneath it.

The Risk

  1. 03Hail, Frost and Spreading the RiskOn why a warmer region is a more dangerous one to farm.
  2. 04The Slopes That Are Suddenly GoodOn a map drawn for a climate that no longer exists.