A century of South Australian climate change

For the avoidance of doubt and of a fusillade of online scorn and abuse, what I am about to describe is the beginning of a cool vintage against a backdrop of inexorably increasing temperatures.

The Australian wine community is very fortunate to have access to the day-by-day heat-accumulation data for the seven-month vine-growing season (October to April) for each vintage and region for the past 100 years. Our very effective national climate and scientific...