VoteClimate: English Wine Industry - 16th November 2016

English Wine Industry - 16th November 2016

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate English Wine Industry.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-11-16/debates/6235F34F-4D24-4C32-ACCC-E72838E1C800/EnglishWineIndustry

16:48 Edward Leigh (Conservative)

Let me turn to the reasons for that growth. Many parts of England have always had the same chalky limestone soils as the Champagne region, but now English wine makers are catching up because our climate is improving. In blind tastings, some English wines are now beating the great Champagne houses at their own game. Therefore, with climate changing, we have every chance to produce the very best sparkling wines; dare I say—I will probably be sued—almost champagnes?

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17:08 Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham) (Con)

There are not yet any Scottish vineyards that I am aware of—but if climate change continues, the way that the new President of the United States may wish, we may be having Château Edinburgh before the decade is out.

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