(20 Sep 2023)
FRANCE WINE CLIMATE CHANGE
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Burgundy, France – 12 September 2023
1. Various of sunrise over vineyard
2. Timelapse of sunrise over vineyard ++MUTE++
3. Various of grape harvesters walking through vineyard
4. Various of grape harvesters collecting grapes
5. Various of Jean-Rémi Fray, vineyard manager, inspecting grapes
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Rémi Fray, vineyard manager:
“We can really see the effects of climate change. The main one we can say is the spring frost, because now the winters are quite warm. They are not cold enough. And the bud break, the moment the buds start to grow, occurs sooner than before, at a period in early April where there are some frosts. And it’s difficult to deal with that. You can have lost all your production in only one night. So we have some work around solution to find but it’s very tough.”
7. Tilt up of vines
8. Various of harvesters collecting grapes
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Rémi Fray, vineyard manager:
“We always had some storms here in Burgundy, it’s something usual during the summer. But now the frequency of the storms and the intensity is completely different. We have a lot of storms and very, very intense. That is why we can say the climate is changing here too”
10. Wide of vines
11. Various of grapes
12. Mid of vines
13. Various of weeds growing around vines
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Rémi Fray, vineyard manager:
“The first one we can do on a vineyard like this is to work on the height of the leaves. The more height you have, more shadow you have to protect the leaves. We are trying to to keep a lot of leaves at the grapes level, and we are trying to keep some weeds on the soil to avoid the temperature of the soil to get too high.”
15. Various of forklift moving box of grapes into position over tank
16. Winery worker climbing ladder to top of tank
17. Close of grapes falling out of box into tank
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Negrerie, Château de Pommard winemaker:
“It is totally bad for me, because I love Pinot Noir. It is my favourite varietal, it’s delicate, it’s different aromas. The evolution through age is amazing. But we cannot fight against nature sometimes. And it’s us, we need to adapt, we probably need to change the varietal, the grape variety here. Because not every year, but some years, you get really ripe, ripe, ripe Pinot Noir and it’s not the way it should be, the Pinot Noir. And probably Pinot Noir needs to go far more north, we need to blend it over there where it’s more its climate. And we need to start to blend probably other things.”
19. Various of Burgundy landscape
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Burgundy, France – 13 September 2023
20. Walking shot between rows of vines
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Burgundy, France – 19 September 2023
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21. SOUNDBITE (English) Héloïse Mahé, Deputy Technical Director, BIVB (Burgundy Wine Board):
“We also are creating new varieties which is a cross between Pinot or Chardonnay and resistant varieties, resistant to powdery mildew and downy mildew. And my team is in the cellar right now because we are vinifying more than 300 new varieties. So maybe one of them or several of them carries the future of Bourgogne (Burgundy.”
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Burgundy, France – 12 September 2023
22. Various of harvesters
23. Various of grapes
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Burgundy winemakers may have to abandon their famous Pinot Noir grapes as climate change bites.
STORYLINE:
Dawn breaks over Burgundy.
And already, vineyards are bursting into life.
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