{"id":3244,"date":"2026-06-29T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:08:31","slug":"on-greek-island-of-santorini-winemakers-try-to-adapt-to-heat-and-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"On Greek island of Santorini, winemakers try to adapt to heat and drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<li>Companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>SANTORINI, Greece, June 29 (Reuters) &#8211; In a vineyard on the Greek island of Santorini, winemaker Yiannis Boutaris gestures \u200bto a dried-up \u2018kouloura\u2019 vine trained into the shape of a basket to protect the grapes from the gruelling \u200csummer sun. The plant endured for 90 years but was finally killed by heat and drought.<\/div>\n<div>Its fate highlights a growing problem on Santorini, where low rainfall and searing temperatures from 2023-2025 have increased the price of grapes, slashed wine production and intensified concerns over water supply &#8211; an issue blighting much \u200bof Greece as climate change makes summers hotter and rainfall more erratic.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe lack of rain, in combination with the \u200black of cultivation, in the last couple of years has led to these old vineyards really \u2060dying,&#8221; said Boutaris, whose winery has its own vineyards and also buys grapes &#8211; including from the vineyard with the dying vines.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The \u200bmain thing for our winery is we are not abandoning tradition &#8230; we are adapting the vineyard to the new circumstances.&#8221;<\/div>\n<h2>GREECE&#8217;S ANCIENT VINEYARDS \u200bTRY NOVEL TECHNIQUES<\/h2>\n<div>Boutaris, a sixth-generation winemaker who runs the Domaine Sigalas winery, now part of the Kir-Yianni family of wineries, is testing a pilot project with local authorities and scientists to take wastewater from homes and hotels to irrigate the vines.<\/div>\n<div>They say the practice, also used in California, could be more sustainable \u200band energy-efficient than taking water from expensive desalination plants.<\/div>\n<div>Boutaris is also testing planting vines in rows rather than scattered in the traditional way, \u200bto make irrigation more efficient, and atmospheric water harvesting. This captures moisture from the air in hydrogels, then extracts it as water with heat generated \u200cby solar \u2060panels.<\/div>\n<div>Wine growers are at the centre of a wider contest for land and water in Greece.<\/div>\n<div>In the warmer months, when millions of tourists descend on islands like Santorini, farmers, hotel owners and swimming pool operators often compete for a share of the dwindling water supply.<\/div>\n<div>Production of Santorini&#8217;s famous Assyrtiko grape fell from 2,500 metric tons in 2022 to just 500 tons last year. Winemakers are \u200bpaying farmers 10 euros ($11) a \u200bkg, the kind of prices \u2060seen in prosperous regions like Champagne. In northern Greece, which is less hot, a kilo goes for just 80 cents.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cSantorini reached a limit of dramatic conditions in 2023 and 2024,\u201d said Stefanos \u200bKoundouras, a professor of viticulture at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. He said the temperatures were the hottest in \u200b60 years.<\/div>\n<div>Koundouras said \u2060the wine sector could become less sustainable all over Europe, particularly around the Mediterranean, if it keeps getting hotter and drier.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe are already seeing problems in the quality and special character of the wines.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Winemaker Yiannis Papaeconomou is also planning to tap into the wastewater project \u2060for his 6-year-old vines.<\/div>\n<div>He \u200bhas been trying other techniques such as a system that irrigates the \u200bvines underneath the soil rather than from above, to reduce evaporation, as well as trellising them so they can be watered more efficiently.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cSo we must adapt and proceed in \u200ba new way of thinking and, you know, find a way out,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div>($1 = 0.8772 euros)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3242\">Gold falls as Gulf tensions fuel inflation fears, Fed rate-hike bets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3240\">Senior Lebanese official slams US-brokered deal with Israel, warns of divisions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3238\">Dollar poised for best month in nearly a year; eyes on Gulf tension, jobs data<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low rainfall and searing temperatures have increased the price of grapes, slashed wine production and intensified concerns over water supply &#8211; an issue blighting much \u200bof Greece as climate change makes summers hotter and rainfall more erratic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,70,144],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-solutions","tag-water-management"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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