English vineyards introduce new grapes due to global heating

Warming temperatures make pinot noir a staple of English winemakers although unpredictable weather threatens quaffability

On a hot morning in Devon, a single field stands as a barometer of climate change. Charlie Brown, 30, an assistant winemaker at Sandridge Barton vineyard, explains that the site in which they will soon start planting pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot meunier wine grapes would once have been considered unsuitable for growth.

The climate has changed. When you are the top of that brow the wind does rip through it a bit but we can plant here now," he says.