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Yes, You can Cultivate Wine Grapes in English Vineyards Now

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The Winery I've found that is the farthest North  63.47°N A common trope from contrarian activists is that the roman warm period ( RWP ) and medieval warm period ( MWP ) were warmer than today. The proxy data we have conclusively show this to be false, but most of these contrarians reject the proxy evidence. Instead, you often hear claims that during these previous times, you could grow wine in England , but you can't now. Therefore the globe was warmer then than now. One version of this trope is: The Romans wrote about growing wine grapes in Britain in the first century,” says Avery, “and then it got too cold during the Dark Ages . Ancient tax records show the Britons grew their own wine grapes in the 11th century, during the Medieval Warming, and then it got too cold during the Little Ice Age . It isn’t yet warm enough for wine grapes in today’s Britain. Wine grapes are among the most accurate and sensitive indicators of temperature and they are telling us about a cycle. ...