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’60 Minutes’ Whines About Wine Despite Data Showing Bountiful Grape Yields

by H. Sterling Burnett
December 29, 2021, 11:00 AM
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60 minutes wineIn a segment in CBS’s long-running weekly news program 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl interviewed a few vintners in France who say climate change is destroying its wine and champagne industries.

Data shows otherwise.

Although France suffered low production in 2021 due to a combination of drought and untimely cold weather, global grape production has done well, repeatedly setting records over the past three decades.

Local weather conditions, not global climate change, always drive grape-growing success.

In the news segment, titled “Effects of climate change taking root in the wine industry,” 60 Minutes opines:

What are the signs of global warming? Glaciers are melting at an increasingly rapid pace. Persistent droughts are spreading. Well, we have another to tell you about – wine, as in what you probably cracked open for Christmas dinner.

Farmers who grow the grapes have seen the effects of climate change in the soil, in the roots of the vines, and in the yields of their crops.

2021 has been a particularly bad year for wine production in France and, to a lesser extent, globally. Stahl interviewed several long-time wine producers in France who linked the low wine production in 2021 to climate change.

Data indicates 2021 is an anomaly, not indicative of a long-term trend that might implicate a changing climate. France and other top wine-producing countries in the region experienced a particularly bad weather year.

“The almost catastrophic figures from France were caused by very unfavorable climatic [sic] conditions during most of the growing season: frost, hail, storms, and humidity in the summer (causing diseases),” writes Forbes magazine in an article discussing global wine-producing hardships in 2021.

As Forbes detailed, although weather conditions in Europe were unfavorable to wine production in 2021, other countries were producing more wine than in the previous year:

The USA, the world’s third-biggest wine producer, increased the wine volume by six percent to reach 24.1 million hectoliters (Mhl). A “hectoliter” is a metric unit of volume equal to 100 liters.

Australia, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa, who usually jockey for positions five to eight in the world ranking, did well or very well in some cases: up 30 percent for both Australia and Chile (to 14.2 Mhl and 13.4 Mhl respectively), +16 percent for Argentina (12.5 Mhl), and a more modest +2 percent for South Africa (10.6 Mhl).

Grape production, as with all other crops, varies from year to year, due to a variety of factors, such as the local weather conditions, farm inputs, and acres planted.

Despite the yearly ups and downs, the record clearly shows, as the earth has modestly warmed grape production has increased.

As vintners in different countries have faced different challenges, they have adapted, planting the varietals that best suit their particular soils and weather conditions.

Indeed, data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), shows the five highest years of grape production on record have all occurred since 2013. (See the figure)

Contrary to the impression left by the 60 Minutes story, during the recent period of modest warming, new records for global grape production were set in 2013, 2015, and most recently in 2018.

Between 1988 and 2019—the last year for which FAO has data and also the second-largest production year on record—grape production increased by approximately 33 percent.

Looking at individual wine-producing countries, FAO data show that grape production has grown substantially in seven of the top 10 wine-producing countries between 1988 and 2019.

Wine production does not directly track grape production. Demand, market prices, competing demands for grapes, and coordinated market strategies—which some might call collusion or an attempt to fix prices—can limit or contribute to an increase in wine production.

For example, global wine production dramatically increased in 2018 in Europe and globally, it being the second highest production year since 2000.

In response, the study “State of the World Vitivinicultural Sector In 2020,” found several “Italian, French and Spanish producers’ associations to fix the vinified volumes at a level lower to that of 2019 because of the expected drop in demand on the global wine market, the favorable weather led to a bountiful harvest in many regions of the EU.”

So, in 2020, wine producers in France, Italy, and Spain, were trying to suppress wine production to manipulate the market due to the previous year’s high yields.

This happened just a year before inclement weather conditions resulted in poor wine growing conditions. One year’s bad weather does not equal climate change-induced problems for the wine industry.

Indeed, data show 2018 was the second-highest year for wine production since 2000, and 2013 was the third highest production year.

As the CBC explained recently, weather and climate, although often confused or treated as interchangeable by corporate media outlets like CBS’s 60 Minutes, are two different things.

[T]he most common terms — like weather and climate — can be deceiving.

Those two terms are sometimes used interchangeably and while they are linked, they actually refer to different things.

With weather and climate, the biggest factor is time.

Weather refers to the short term.

…

Weather systems can also bring extremely unusual conditions to an area ….

…

[C]limate is defined by long-term averages.

Climate refers to the atmospheric trends for an area.

It takes a look at specific weather conditions for a certain region and averages them over a set period of time.

Climate change is accounted for by most government agencies involved with monitoring weather and climate as changes in average conditions over a thirty-year period.

In 2021, France experienced a bad spell of weather that affected grape production. There has been no significant change in average temperatures or precipitation in France or in most European wine-producing countries over the past 30 years.

While the weather outside may have been frightful for wine producers in France in 2021, contrary to the 60 Minutes story, data clearly show long-term climate change is not devastating wine production there or anywhere else.

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Comments 8

  1. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    60 Minutes 1 Hour of Lies

    Reply
  2. Russell Johnson says:
    4 years ago

    Fookin liars! I agree they’re exactly like PBS—focus on a local problem then extrapolate globally. Thanks for that Sonnyhill!!!!

    Reply
  3. Rhee says:
    4 years ago

    the news is that France’s vintners are chuffed that everyone else had great harvests of grapes and that translates to loss of market share. the only climate changing here is the economic climate

    Reply
  4. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    Remember this is the very same 60 Minutes that spread that big lie about Alar in Apples and their still lying to us today

    Reply
  5. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    60 Minutes is not real news its the usial Propaganda we get from the rest of the Fake News we get from NYT,Time,Newsweek,USA TODAY,GMA,Etc.Someone take hammer to their stopwatch

    Reply
  6. Sonnyhill says:
    4 years ago

    They’ll do it every time, focus on a local problem then extrapolate globally. It wasn’t that long ago that European wine was distilled into fuel ethanol because the warehouses were full. If you are truly hooked on French wine, pay up.
    A few months ago there was a killing frost in Brazil. The price of coffee was predicted to rise. How many people know that Vietnam is the second largest producer of coffee beans? Not Kenya, not Columbia.

    Reply
    • Steve Bunten says:
      4 years ago

      Funny how they always then ignore any data to the contrary such as Australia’s production was up 30%. Doesn’t fit the narrative.

      Reply
      • Sonnyhill says:
        4 years ago

        My favourite is an Ozzy Shiraz.

        Reply

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