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Feature Article
At the end of the 21st century, will Napa Valley growers have to resort to mixed agriculture with date palms and vines sharing the same land?
Global Warming Turns Up the Heat in Napa Valley Vineyards
Alan Goldfarb speaks with long time Napa grape grower, Laurie Wood, about the negative effects of global warming on the wine industry and specifically the Napa Valley. To which, Wood warns “Unless we get off our yin yang and get going, it may be too late already.”
by
Alan Goldfarb
August 9, 2006
At 86 years old, Laurie Wood has been growing grapes in the Napa Valley perhaps longer than any living human being. As evidence of how long -- and intimately -- he’s been involved in the valley’s grape growing industry, Wood is also known around these parts as a man who could find water under the most arid of deserts. In his other profession as a water douser, Wood has come to know just about every piece of earth in the Napa Valley.
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