It’s about time
Wine can be intensely of the moment, but it can also be very much about the passing of time. That first taste can bring an instant flash of sheer pleasure. Yet we also acquire wines that may not reach their best for many years to come, laying down a marker for some point in the future when we hope we will be able to sample what time has done to those precious bottles. And it is that latter trait that we should harness when we think about how climate change is going to affect all of us, our descendants and their descendants. When you examine the current state of things, it’s clear that if we want to preserve much of what we value, we need to take action right now.…