Food & Drink

6 treats you need to start hoarding now

Among all the first world problems to have, the Hamptons was slapped with a doozy this week: There is a rosé shortage.

Wölffer Estate, one of Long Island’s most esteemed vineyards, apparently sold out of its 2013 Summer in a Bottle rosé and Grandioso rosé as well as the 2010 Noblesse Oblige sparkling rosé.

A number of the Hamptons’ famed eateries that keep Wölffer on the menu are running dangerously low as Labor Day weekend approaches.

Is it us, or have there been a lot of shortages in 2014? Everything from limes to hazelnuts seems to be vanishing before our eyes, and there’s nothing we can do. If you don’t stock up, don’t say we didn’t warn you — here are the six most alarming:

Wine in general

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Yes, the rosé shortage is alarming, but it’s peanuts in comparison to what might happen to the California wine industry after last weekend’s 6.0 earthquake in Napa. The initial reports were not good: Henry Hill & Co. has reportedly lost 20 percent of their stock; B.R. Cohn Winery might have lost as much as 50 percent. This comes on the heels of California’s worst drought in decades.

Guess we’re going to be drinking French wines for a while.

Kale

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We’re not sure the precise moment when kale moved out of garnish territory and became the hippest vegetable of all time, but its reign may soon come to an end. In July, ABC News Australia reported that one of the world’s major seed producers is apparently out of seeds.

The reason this happened, according to the reports, is that demand had gotten so far out of control, farmers weren’t prepared for it.

Bananas

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Panama disease isn’t something you get from Panama — and it actually isn’t something humans can get at all. It’s a fungus that has a nasty habit of wiping out Cavendish banana crops, which accounts for 95 percent of the commercial banana market.

The fungus has been a major problem for banana producers in Asia for decades, but it was recently discovered in Jordan and Mozambique, and in April the UN warned it could spread to Latin America.

Hazelnuts — and, by extension, Nutella

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Frost hit Turkey in March, wiping out 70 percent of the hazelnut crop and causing a 10-year high in prices — which is terrible. But it gets worse when you think of the ramifications: What about Nutella?

This comes just as New York saw a Nutella bar open at Eataly, and as it gets ready for a restaurant in Park Slope that will focus exclusively on the addictive chocolate-hazelnut spread.

Bacon

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Yes, we all thought Honey Boo Boo’s pig Glitzy was cute — but few of us are able to give up our morning supply of bacon just because of a cute pig. (We’re still talking about Glitzy, right?)

Well, we might have to anyway when we found out earlier in August that bacon prices rose to their highest in 30 years due to a lack of healthy pigs. (Last year, a virus swept through about 30 states, killing millions of pigs.) I guess we can live without sausage . . . or ham . . . or pork chops . . .

Limes

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It was always so simple: salt, tequila, lime. But what happens now that limes are in the midst of a major shortage?

Thanks to a series of unfortunate events in Mexico (where 97 percent of our limes are produced), including heavy rains, bacteria and drug cartels looting groves, the price of limes skyrocketed from $30 a crate up to $200 back in April. Until prices go down, you’re going to have to suck a lemon.