Article in Time: Climate Change's Effects on Grapegrowing

Among the many interesting points in the article:
1. Lighter containers: Some wineries are reducing the "carbon footprint" of shipping by 60%, by bottling their wines in PET plastic.
2. Finding new growing areas: Some wine regions, e.g., Chile, are expecting hotter and hotter high temps over the next few decades, and they are already growing grapes in a very hot regions; therefore, they are actively seeking out new vineyard areas where cooling winds blow down from the Andes; these new areas are already making and marketing wines, which are seen as fresher and truer to varietal form. [KLE note: I hope Australia does this, as so many Aussie wines I try are so heavy with overextraction and baked fruit flavors, both the result of superheat in the vineyard.]
3. Peaks and Valleys: 2010 was the warmest year on record in the Northern Hemisphere, but more worrying is the growing weather variability: Record lows in winter followed by record highs in summer. This plays havoc with the vineyard.
4. Reducing carbon emissions: More and more wineries are reducing carbon emissions by using renewable energy, underground buildings, etc.
5. Restoring natural balance: In South Africa, they removed non-native trees (which suck inordinate amounts of groundwater), and that simple act has restored flow in creeks which had been dry for more than sixty years.