Grape expectations adapt to climate change
Rising temperatures are causing production problems for winemakers in temperate regions. Importers and sellers in Singapore are also starting to feel the heat.
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Janice Lim
WARM, sunny and a bumper crop. That was how expert reports expected the burgundy grape season in 2020 to go.
Gerald Lu, sommelier and director of Praelum Wine Bistro, splashed out S$20,000 then to stock up on burgundy from that year. But what was thought to be a season of warm and sunny weather turned into a heatwave. Lu’s mistake was confirmed two years later, when the wine arrived and it was clearly a bad vintage.
“The fruit was so burnt, so cooked. The colour was deep, dark. Not good at all,” he says.
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