WineNews reports that Burgundy is confronting climate change with water and soil at the center of its response. The Italian-language item presents the perspective of Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair, described by the publisher as one of the prestigious estates in this globally renowned wine region. Its headline frames the effort as a way to defend the terroir’s patrimonial value, while the deck identifies water and soil as the central themes. Together, the headline and deck portray a Burgundy estate’s climate response as an effort rooted in the vineyard’s land and water, with the protection of terroir as the stated aim.
According to the Australian Wine Research Institute, recent rainfall has produced abundant green feed and good soil-moisture levels in Australian farming areas, creating favorable conditions for Australian plague locusts. AWRI’s September 11 update focuses specifically on locust management in winegrape vineyards. The item connects a recent weather pattern with a vineyard-management concern: rainfall has changed surrounding conditions in ways that favor the pest, while the update addresses management in vineyards. AWRI identifies the insect as a significant agricultural pest and frames the report for winegrape settings. This makes the story a weather-vine adaptation item grounded in a recent rainfall signal rather than a general wine-business report.
WineNews reports that drought is affecting vineyards in Abruzzo as the 2026 Italian harvest progresses. Growers there were still concentrating on early-ripening white grapes, including Pecorino and Trebbiano, while the drought was also expected to affect Montepulciano d’Abruzzo; its harvest was scheduled to begin around mid-September. At Etna, the outlet reported that white-grape harvesting was expected around mid-September, followed by reds from late September into early October, broadly matching the usual schedule. WineNews also described Valpolicella as already in full harvest mode and noted that the first bunches had been picked in Bolgheri while other major red-wine regions remained several days or weeks from harvest.
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