droughts

“The evidence that human-caused climate change is changing heat waves, heavy rainfall events, droughts, hurricanes, and wildfires has grown.”

But the firm struggled to live up to expectations at a time when droughts in major coffee producing countries such as Brazil and Vietnam have driven up prices of raw coffee.

But some of the impacts will be much less palatable - with more frequent droughts and wildfires.

With climate change now hitting Italy's winemakers with everything from more droughts to bigger hailstorms, Mr Pasqua says that other wineries are now going down the non-vintage route, or at least considering it.

The problem has deepened as climate change has unleashed longer and more intense droughts.