One of the revived grape varieties. (Source: Torres)

“Querol, Forcada and Pirene are grapes most people have never heard of. Their names are new, chosen by Spain’s Torres family after they found them growing wild in Catalonia. Yet the family is convinced that these varieties were commonly used in the region’s blended red wines for hundreds or thousands of years.” In Wine Spectator, Kristen Bieler reports on the Torres family’s 30-plus-year journey to recover the lost winemaking heritage of Catalonia. “The more they learn about these ancestral varieties, the more the family believes they could play a pivotal role in arming today’s winegrowers to cope with an increasingly warm and dry climate.”

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