“Wine is a bit of a climate archive. When we open a bottle, we travel back in time to the period when the grapes were ripening,” says Michal Bažalík, a winemaker from Svätý Jur. Unlike many farmers, he does not speak of the drought as just a catastrophe. He claims that warmer and drier conditions are beneficial to the vines in many ways, and Slovakia is now able to grow riper grapes than it used to be. Gradually, however, the conversation turns …
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“Wine is a bit of a climate archive. When we open a bottle, we travel back in time to the period when the grapes were ripening,” says Michal Bažalík, a winemaker from Svätý Jur. Unlike many farmers, he does not speak of the drought as just a catastrophe. He claims that warmer and drier conditions are beneficial to the vines in many ways, and Slovakia is now able to grow riper grapes than it used to be. Gradually, however, the conversation turns …