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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jane Kirby

Good wines linked to warmer temperatures and higher rainfall, research finds

Warm temperatures and higher rainfall – both of which are expected to become more common with climate change – are the key to producing good wines, research suggests.

Experts led by the University of Oxford analysed 50 years’ worth of wine critic scores from the Bordeaux region of France and compared them with that year’s weather.

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