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Research in the last two decades reveal significant shifts in viticulture and the wine production as an effect of climate change. The 0.89 °C increase of average global temperature during the XX century has as a consequences today a faster development of grapevine growing stages and early maturation of the grapes, higher sugar accumulation in grapes and lower acidity, changing the well-known sensory profile of wines, changing the specific climate of traditional vineyards, the diminution of climate suitability for the wine production in Mediterranean climate zone and the emergence of areas with viticultural potential beyond the northern limit of vine culture (50 ° N). Expected increases by 1.4...5.8 ° C of global average temperature to end of sec. XX will accentuate these effects and will radically change the spatial distribution of viticulture on the globe as well as the structure of the wine types production, as we know it today. Since viticulture and the wine production are the components of a globally billion-dollars industry, research strives to understand the impact of climate change on viticulture in all their details and find adaptation solutions. In this sphere of study was included the research carried out between 2014 and 2020 in the framework of the European project LIFE ADVICLIM (http://www.adviclim.eu/), coordinated by CNRS/University Rennes 2 (France) and bringing together researchers from France, Germany, United Kingdom, Romania and Spain, aiming to find solutions to adapt viticulture to climate change. The pilot sites of the project were located in Saint Emillion - Bordeaux; Saumur Champigny and Coteaux du Layon - Val de Loire …