Climate change is good news for English wine

Acolon grapes are ready to be transported from a vineyard near Scaynes Hill, part of the wine department of Plumpton College in East Sussex. -AFP

PLUMPTON, United Kingdom: While climate change menaces vineyards in southern Europe, English winemakers are raising a toast to warming weather as it improves their wines and has helped revive an ancient tradition.

“Climate change is benefitting us a lot,” said Chris Foss, head of the Wine Department at Plumpton College, the first to offer courses in winemaking in Britain and a symbol of its maturing wine industry.