It’s getting warmer, and for wine on Long Island, that’s a good thing.
It’s rare when a day goes by without another story about the possible consequences of climate change. Many world leaders have called it the greatest challenge of our time. The CIA predicts climate change will be the greatest destabilizing factor affecting U.S. security. Here on the East End, many of us would just like to know what climate change will mean for us and our way of life. As a winemaker, I understand climate and soil are the two most important factors in a wine region’s terroir. So what kind of changes can we expect?
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There’s no place like loam.
Unlike most of the winegrowing soils of Europe, Long Island’s soils are geologically new; the last glacier receded only 11,000 years ago, when tremendous mountains of ice ground rock into gravel, sand and silt. As the glacier melted, the resulting deluge carried and sorted the sand and gravel, which were deposited on a broad area known as the glacial outwash plain. As the ice kept melting, this plain was covered by water and wind-deposited silt, clay and fine sand, creating the topsoil of the island.
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What we hear can affect how we taste.
There’s no doubt wine and music work very well together. Sharing a glass of wine while listening to music over a romantic dinner can be one of life’s greatest pleasures. As a winemaker, music in the cellar soothes my mind, inspires creativity and energizes the workday. Wine and music are there to celebrate life’s most important moments and our greatest achievements. It’s the perfect pairing. But we now know the relationship between wine and music may go even deeper than we thought.
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