, How Lodi defies climate-related assumptions

Borden Ranch in the Lodi appellation, a wine region in which warm climatic conditions are utilized to optimal advantage.

Boy, it’s been a hot July. Everywhere. This, ironically, following an unusually cool month of June in Lodi wine country. In fact, a cooler than normal first six months of the year. Whatever the case, everyone’s talking about climate change, even outside political contexts. It doesn’t matter what you think. There have been significant shifts in climate.

In respect to viticulture, during the past ten years no one has written more about the impact of climate change on the winegrowing industry than Dr. Gregory V. Jones, a renowned Oregon based research climatologist who is now the CEO of Abacela Winery (an industry leading Umpqua Valley estate founded by the professor’s parents, Earl and Hilda Jones). For constantly updated, fascinating reads, look up Dr. Jones’ highly detailed Weather and Climate Summary and Forecast.

Dr. Jones recently wrote to me, complimenting a lodiwine.com post from earlier this year alluding to Köppen climate classifications, which was couched in a discussion of Lodi’s Mediterranean climate (re Delineations of Mediterranean climate in Lodi and the rest of the world).

In his email, the professor also attached a snippet of a scholarly work recently published on climate classification as it pertains to winegrowing all around the world. Wrote Jones: “Back in 2009-2010, a couple of students of mine and I did a global assessment of Köppen climate types using the best digital database of wine region boundaries and raster data of Köppen climates worldwide. 

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This Article was originally published on Lodi Wine

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