The 2024 Barca-Velha Golden Vines Innovation Award recognises the pioneering work of the Spanish vineyard to combine sustainable winemaking practices, which mix custom with innovation to rescue ancestral grape varieties.
Mireia Torres, fifth era member of the family and director of innovation and information at Familia Torres, mentioned: “This can be a recognition of your complete group of pros devoted to analysis, whether or not from the realm of innovation and information or from totally different departments that collaborate on initiatives.
“Work is carried out in varied fields, together with viticulture, oenology, microbiology, expertise, and open innovation. Our objective is to seek out options that permit us to face the challenges of the sector by being extra environment friendly and resilient, in addition to to contribute concepts of curiosity for brand new merchandise”.
Voting for this 12 months’s awards has been attended by 1,200 wine professionals from greater than 100 international locations, together with Masters of Wine and grasp sommeliers with a long time of collective expertise, by way of an intensive survey that has led to The Golden Vines Report, which was initially promoted by Gérard Basset as founding father of Liquid Icons.
Familia Torres arrange a analysis mission 40 years in the past to assist recovering the Catalan winemaking heritage and that now focuses on recovering not solely the ancestral varieties with oenological curiosity, but additionally those who finest adapt to the brand new climatic state of affairs.
Its innovation and information division additionally promotes different initiatives aimed toward reworking vineyards and wineries in direction of extra sustainable and resilient fashions. These embrace initiatives associated to regenerative viticulture, a brand new option to handle vineyards that Familia Torres is already implementing in Spain and Chile with the purpose of recovering soil fertility and selling biodiversity, in addition to capturing and fixing atmospheric CO2 to assist mitigate the results of local weather change.
