Five Ways Wine Will Change in 2023
This year you’ll be hearing more about mindful drinking, sustainable wine packaging and vino from Sicily, Switzerland and even space.
Grapes ready for harvest at a vineyard overlooking Lake Geneva last September.
Photographer: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty ImagesWine news in 2022 was both concerning and upbeat. Once again, scorching heat, record-breaking drought, spring frosts, hailstorms and wildfires reminded vintners of the dire threat and cost of climate change, which will cause more eco-anxiety in 2023. On the positive side, vintners and drinkers are taking sustainability ever more seriously, and more innovations and adaptations are coming.
The first Future Drinks Expo in San Francisco in May was a look at the technology for wine’s future. Robots? They’re in the vineyard already, picking grapes, weeding and pruning, and will soon be working to ferment tiny batches of grapes in the cellar.