If anything depends on the weather, it is viticulture. Producers watch daily temperatures with suspicion, as the slightest variations in climate affect harvests. Current climate change, caused by the greenhouse effect, is a major culprit. How does a wine producer deal with it? Text Charlotte van Zummeren | Image Familia Torres
T he effects of climate change are many and can be roughly summarised as: more hot days and fewer cold days, extreme precipitation and a rise in humidity. Wine regions suffer from this. France has already had a few years with a lot of climate hindrance, Spain is again suffering more drought. In the Penedès in Familia Torres' Catalonia region, they are especially bothered by too little rainfall and rising temperatures. The winery is therefore organising a seminar for journalists from home and abroad to show what solutions they are planning to curb rising temperatures. "Right now we have an increase compared to 30 years ago and we can handle that. But we have to look to the future, in case it goes up even further," says Miguel A. Torres, president of the eponymous Bodegas. That's not all, sustainability as well as its own CO2 emissions are also part of the winery's policy, he says. 'It was Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth that made me want to do something.'
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