Miguel Torres on the Viticulture of the Future

Ulrich Sautter, 18.03.2026

Over the past 50 years, Miguel A. Torres has shaped Spanish viticulture like few others: expanding exports, creating innovative wines and growing the family's vineyard holdings to more than 1000 hectares. At the age of 85, one issue continues to drive him: the fight against climate change.

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Falstaff: Mr. Torres, in Germany we experienced the devastating floods in the Ahr valley in 2021, in Spain there were floods in Valencia in 2024. Yet there are still people who claim that natural disasters have always existed and that climate change is fiction.

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