A plantation on the outskirts of Palermo has for the first time produced Arabica coffee beans grown and harvested entirely in Italy. The result, achieved on the Morettino family estate, has been made possible by climate change, which has effectively brought tropical temperatures to southern Italy.
While global warming had already enabled southern England to produce champagne-style sparkling wine, pushing the traditional growing areas of France and northern Italy further north, the jump made by coffee from equatorial zones to the Mediterranean is clearly even greater.
