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Druivensoorten en gemiddelde lente-zomertemperaturen nodig voor rijping Algemeen commentaar: de druivensoorten aan de rechter kant van het schema hebben betere vooruitzichten dan die aan de linkerkant! |
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2003: uitdroging en stress op Riesling in Nahegebied (eigen foto) |
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En de zo bereisde wijnschrijver Duijker zegt dat Nederland in 2020 een groot wijnland wordt. Maar wat zegt de wetenschap? In het Spaanse Zaragoza - overigens in de voorbije 20 jaar tot topregio uitgegroeid - hielden ze vorig jaar een internationale conferentie over "climate change and viticulture". Eén van de wetenschappers die daar een grote indruk maakte was Prof. Gregory V. Jones van het Department of Geography, Univ. of Oregon. Titel van zijn betoog: Climate Change: Observations, Projections, and General Implications for Viticulture and Wine Production . De titel dekt de lading: 50-jaar lange metingen van temperaturen in wijngebieden van de VSA over Europa tot Australië, en de daarmee gepaard gaande rijpingsgegevens van alle bekende druivensoorten (zie schema hierboven). En daarenboven een extrapolatie tot 2040. We kunnen hier niet ingaan op het geheel van de uiteenzetting. We hebben het artikel in Wordversie op deze link staan, en geven meteen de samenvatting ervan, hier en daar wat meer in mensentaal omgezet: |
Prof. Gregory Jones, Oregon
Dornfelder druiven op onze wijngaard - 28 juli 07! Dornfelder grapes in our "Northern" vineyard, 28 July 07! |
Our own experience of 20 years with a "northern" vineyard (in Belgium, 50 ° NW) tells us that at the onset we harvested early or mid-October. In the last 3 years, we have done se around mid-to-late September! One of the countries where the influence of clilmate change on wine growing is becoming more and more visible is Spain, where southern wine regions are experiencing periods of +40°C midday temperatures. In Zaragoza, itself an up and coming wine region, they held an international conference on the issue. One of the most appreciated contributions was that by Prof. Gregory V. Jones, Department of Geography, Univ. of Oregon. His title: Climate Change: Observations, Projections, and General Implications for Viticulture and Wine Production . The broad title covers the content: 50-year long oberservations of temperatures in wine growing regions all over the world, studies of climate change worldwide, and the correlated changies in maturing processes of all known grapevines. We cannot reproduce the whole article here, have put it in Word version on this link This is a somewhat simplified summary of the article. |
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Comparison of average temperatures real (1955-99) and projected (2000-2049) in Northern and Southern Hemispheres |
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"Using Hadley Centre climate model (HadCM3) output and an A2 emission scenario (Pope et al. (2000) to 2049 for 27 of the world’s top wine producing regions, Jones et al. (2005a) compared the average climates of two periods, 1950-1999 and 2000-2049. The results suggest that mean growing season temperatures will warm by an average of 1.3ºC over the wine regions studied with Burgundy (Beaujolais), Rhine Valley, Barolo, and Bordeaux differences ranging from 0.9-1.4ºC (Figure 4). Also, the projected changes are greater for the Northern Hemisphere (1.3ºC) than the Southern Hemisphere (0.9ºC). Examining the rate of change projected for the 2000-2049 period only reveals significant changes in each wine region with trends ranging from 0.2ºC to 0.6ºC per decade. Overall trends during the 2000-2049 period average 2ºC across all regions with the smallest warming in South Africa (0.9ºC/50 years) and greatest warming in Portugal (2.9ºC/50 years). For the Burgundy (Beaujolais), Rhine Valley, Barolo, and Bordeaux regions, decadal trends are modeled at 0.3-0.5ºC while the overall trends are predicted to be 1.5-2.4ºC (Figure 4). In addition, Jones et al. (2005a) showed that many of the wine regions may be at or near their optimum growing season temperature for high quality wine production and further increases, as predicted by the differences between the means of the 1950-1999 and 2000-2049 periods, will place some regions outside their theoretical optimum growing season climate." R.V. Jones, 2006.
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