Comments on: (getting warmer) http://www.burgundy-report.com/diary/2009/11/6745/ the people, the place and their wines... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: billn http://www.burgundy-report.com/diary/2009/11/6745/comment-page-1/#comment-37425 billn Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:46:13 +0000 http://www.burgundy-report.com/wp/?p=6745#comment-37425 Thanks a lot Philip. I have a couple of references from producers for the last few decades that show a distinct advancement of harvest dates, but on the other hand there have been hotter and colder spells throughout the last 6-8 centuries. So I suppose we may not conclusively say it's global warming, but if we had meteo data for other areas/regions as detailed as the literature from Burgundy, it still might make a good PhD subject! Thanks a lot Philip.

I have a couple of references from producers for the last few decades that show a distinct advancement of harvest dates, but on the other hand there have been hotter and colder spells throughout the last 6-8 centuries.

So I suppose we may not conclusively say it’s global warming, but if we had meteo data for other areas/regions as detailed as the literature from Burgundy, it still might make a good PhD subject!

]]> By: Philip http://www.burgundy-report.com/diary/2009/11/6745/comment-page-1/#comment-37421 Philip Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:15:38 +0000 http://www.burgundy-report.com/wp/?p=6745#comment-37421 Yep, burgundy is a very good climate change proxy, see Historical phenology: Grape ripening as a past climate indicator, Isabelle Chuine, Pascal Yiou, Nicolas Viovy, Bernard Seguin, Valérie Daux & Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Nature 432, 289-290, 18 November 2004. It goes back to 1370. (though the absence of tasting notes on, particularly, the earlier vintages, renders it of lesser interest to some). Yep, burgundy is a very good climate change proxy, see Historical phenology: Grape ripening as a past climate indicator, Isabelle Chuine, Pascal Yiou, Nicolas Viovy, Bernard Seguin, Valérie Daux & Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Nature 432, 289-290, 18 November 2004. It goes back to 1370. (though the absence of tasting notes on, particularly, the earlier vintages, renders it of lesser interest to some).

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