Drought, Climate Change Forcing North Bay Winemakers To Adapt To New Reality

CBS San Francisco

October 7, 2022

Sensitive to changes in temperature and season, grapes have been called one of the canaries in the climate coal mine. That leaves winemakers managing the effects of drought and extreme heat in real time and few of them understand how the land is changing more than 3rd generation winemaker Tony Couturri.

Long before natural wine was a trend, and certainly before there were natural wine bars, Coturri was making wine the old-fashioned way; With literally nothing but the grapes. He's currently pulling in what might be his last harvest, and reflecting on the changes he's witnessed in Sonoma County.

"So this is the estate Zinfandel," Coturri said, pulling an old sheet off of a bin of grapes. "Listen," he said, referencing the quiet bubbling.

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