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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

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

Miguel Torres of the Familia Torres winemaker with his wife Waltraud Maczassek
Miguel Torres of the Familia Torres winemaker with his wife Waltraud Maczassek. The company is installing irrigation at its vineyards in Spain and California. Photograph: ProCrea/Familia Torres

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.

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