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MIGUEL TORRES: “WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PRODUCE THE SAME QUALITY OF WINE IF TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO RISE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE”
2009-11-17 15:51:49
Winefuture will cover the relationship between wine and climate change and education, before the final talks which will analyse the challenges and opportunities facing the sector with Robert Parker and Jancis Robinson, amongst others.
Logroño, Spain, 13th November 2009 – The Earth is experiencing a period of climate change that is affecting the health of the vines, and as a result, the wines that they produce all over the world. This is the opinion of the many viticulture specialists on the second day of WineFuture – Rioja ’09. In his talk, Miguel Torres, President of Bodegas Miguel Torres, affirmed that “we will not be able to make wines of the same quality of temperatures continue to rise with climate change”. In his opinion, this is an area “of great importance” given that for the vineyards “a few degrees hotter and you can’t make wine”.
“For every bottle of wine produced, 2kg of Carbon Dioxide is burnt away” explains Torres, and for this he says that new ideas about recycling are an important challenge for wineries. This point of view is shared by Nicola Jenkin, an expert in wine and recycling. “We have to increase our efforts of recycling glass bottles, and minimizing the materials used for labelling, we must also reduce the amount of water we waste”.
At the same time, the business opportunities offered by climate change and the environment is one of the topics discussed in the wine education courses. Along these lines, explains Kevin Zraly, who is considered to be the best wine educator and technical director of WineFuture, during his talk that “education is the only way towards a consolidated industry, making this an industry of qualified professionals”, and he finished by saying: “The role of educators is fundamental for the sommeliers across the globe”.