They can take advantage of environmental characteristics, like cool climate, to design more-passive systems.
The result is a bright, fresh, full-bodied wine, which the vintner claims reflects the coastal breezes and the cool climate.
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Cool climate varietals (like Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Gris) thrive here thanks to our long summer days and cool nights, but we are slaves to whatever nature decides to throw us each year.
Iceland's farmers, long used to scratching a hard living from their unfertile land in its cool climate, now hope to export their clean beef and lamb at a premium in the wake of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Europe.
Scientists have known for a long time that aerosols cool climate by reflecting sunlight and making clouds brighter, but the new study is the first to use a global model to estimate the net effects on plant carbon intake resulting from this type of atmospheric pollution.
Schemes designed to cool the climate could harm countries such as Canada and Russia.
It is abundantly clear that the cool Alsatian climate and the refreshingly lovely wines have yielded a positively ebullient effect on producers such as Hugel.
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Tucked between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine, hugging the border between France and Germany, Alsace enjoys a cool growing climate similar to that of the Champagne region.
And in fact those same sulfate particles are a primary ingredient in acid rain, so loading the atmosphere with them is probably not a good idea either (although geoengineering proponents have suggested doing exactly that to help cool the climate).
This shut out the sun, causing decades of continuous winter sufficient to trigger an advance of ice sheets that, even when the dust cleared, kept the climate cool for more than a thousand years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
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The climate may further cool if additional natural long and short-term cycles also enter into cooling phases.
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Finding a Mediterranean climate characterised by warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters, they successfully planted their own vines and have kept the valley dry grown (ie no irrigation zone) for more than 150 years.
Pinot needs a cooler climate than Cabernet, and the Russian River funneled the cool Pacific air into this picturesque valley, with its highly variable geology.
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Cool enough not to sweat profusely yet still warm outside at night, the climate is ideal for camping.
In Carneros, the climate is affected by the San Pablo Bay, with its sea breezes and cool fog, reducing the temperature and enabling winemakers to produce wines of ethereal elegance.
"The north Pacific, which drives U.S. climate, is still extremely out of balance, with warm waters in the west and cool waters in the east, " Patzert said.
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