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Fri 12 Dec 2009Hopes for Irish wine industry wither on the vine
IT HAD looked like the best news in years, but the suggestion by a leading Spanish wine maker that climate change could make Ireland an ideal location for future operations has been questioned by an Irish producer.
Miguel Torres of Torres wines had said climate change was already forcing companies like his to buy land up in the Pyrenees “just in case”. “Temperatures have already risen by one degree; if they increase by five, southern Europe will be full of arid steppes and we could see commercial grape production in countries as far afield as Ireland,” he said.
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