Your letters
Spreading the message
Dr Richard Smart is a distinguished wine consultant with a long history of warning about the effects of climate change (he was kind enough to contribute to the first article I wrote for Decanter on the subject, in 2005).
But the criticisms of in his letter in the lasthas been highlighting the issue for years. In the past year, it has published magazine articles exploring the environmental impact of wine production (‘Wine: a sustainable option?’, April 2019); the need for the wine industry to play a leading role in mitigating climate change (‘Climate change: time to act’, July 2019), as well as website articles stressing the need for the wine industry to act (see, for example, ‘Al Gore tells wine industry to act on “global emergency of climate change”, March 2019 and ‘Wine world needs more urgency on climate change, says Torres’, April 2019). I know because I wrote them.
