I’m a wine critic and author with 30 years of tasting and fieldwork experience. It was the changing taste of my favourite wines that brought me to climate change, I founded The Wine and Climate Institute in Oxford (www.twacci.org) in 2016, after having published my first book on wine and climate change in 2014. This blog contains extracts from my UN research, my talks, articles and books, and it is all about wine, climate change, freshwater management, the water and earth sciences, coastal and maritime cultures such as the Vikings and the Saami, Northern issues, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and TEK, etc. Basically, all things Water and anything else that interests me. My greatest hope is to be part of the solution.

July 15, 2012

2007 Villa Belvedere's Amarone

July 15, 2012/ Linda Johnson-Bell

Such opulence ... plump raisins, fragrant violets, sharp balsamic, spicy plum, fruit of the forest, toasted almonds ... Heaven.