How climate change could affect the microbes that ferment grapes and give wine its specific flavors (phys.org)
from Daryl76679@lemmy.ml to science@mander.xyz on 06 Apr 2024 15:22
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Conyak@lemmy.tf on 06 Apr 2024 18:36 next collapse

Can’t say I give a shit about wine but maybe this will get some people to care about the climate.

ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml on 06 Apr 2024 20:39 next collapse

This is probably also affecting a lot of region specific cured and fermented foods. Cheeses, cured meat, even sour kraut and kimchi, could all be slowly changing.

SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml on 06 Apr 2024 21:27 collapse

Watched a Tom Scott video on Swiss cheese, apparently the bubbles were shrinking and the couldn’t figure out why. Turned out as milk was being filtered better it was loosing the micro particles of dust/hay/etc that were acting as nucleation points for the CO²(?), so now they add in some particulate.

ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml on 07 Apr 2024 00:28 collapse

Talking with a chef I know apparently some cheese types are already at risk. They said we’ve been over-cloning certain strands of bacteria and they don’t have enough genetic diversity anymore. I never thought we’d manage to fuck up germs too…

Needing particles for swiss cheese is fascinating. I wonder if there is a market for having smaller holes to better pack cheese in large containers for mass production?

SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml on 07 Apr 2024 09:39 collapse

I think that the thought process was that if the holes disappeared it would no longer be the protected Swiss Cheese, and just be Swiss Style Cheese.

And we(big capitalism) does love a monoculture, so not really surprised on that front.

rbn@sopuli.xyz on 06 Apr 2024 21:08 collapse

I guess our society will rather build airconditioned green houses for wine than implement meaningful measures to protect the planet.

[deleted] on 06 Apr 2024 21:27 next collapse

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xkforce@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 2024 22:11 collapse

Silphium. We literally dont know exactly what plant it was but apparently it was amazing.

antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 07 Apr 2024 15:21 collapse

Is there a big market for naturally/spontaneously fermented wine in New Zealand? In California it’s a very small percentage of wine. Most grapes are treated with sulphur and commercial yeast is used. So all those wines are not going to be any different from a microbe perspective.