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Climate change is altering the chemistry of wine

By Ula Chrobak and Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine, Big Think

Soon after the devastating Glass Fire sparked in California’s Napa Valley in September 2020, wine chemist Anita Oberholster’s inbox was brimming with hundreds of emails from panicked viticulturists. They wanted to know if they could harvest their grapes without a dreaded effect on their wine: the odious ashtray flavor known as smoke taint. 

Oberholster, of the University of California, Davis, could only tell them, “Maybe.”

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