Pirate's Cove

This is all your fault

Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’

A leading European winemaker has warned it may have to abandon its ancestral lands in Catalonia in 30 years’ time because climate change could make traditional growing areas too dry and hot.

Familia Torres is already installing irrigation at its vineyards in Spain and California and is planting vines on land at higher altitudes as it tries to adapt to more extreme conditions.

“Irrigation is the future. We do not rely on the weather,” said its 83-year-old president, Miguel Torres. “I don’t know how long we can stay here making good wines, maybe 20 or 30 years, I don’t know. Climate change is changing all the circumstances.”

The family business has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but Torres said: “In 30 to 50 years’ time maybe we have to stop viniculture here.

Weird how it’s always in the future, eh? Also weird how “news” organizations have to go looking for this cult propaganda to write. It’s all very silly and cultish. If they cannot survive over a miniscule 1.6 F increase in temperatures since 1850, the end of the Little Ice Age, perhaps they aren’t running the business correctly.

“Tourists are very important for Catalonia and we are very close to Barcelona. This area could be for activity for tourists but viniculture, I don’t think is going to be here.”

The group, which invests 11% of its profits every year to combatting and adapting to the climate crisis, may instead have to move at least some of its vineyards “more to the west because it is cooler and we have to have water”.

Let me ask: how many of those tourists take fossil fueled trips to the region? How many fossil fueled vehicles and ships are used to make and transport the wine?

“We have no profit in exports to the UK, that is the reality. Hundreds of thousands of English people come to Spain on holiday and know the brand. We have to keep it alive in the UK.”

They ain’t coming on sailing ships or biking.