Uphill battle: Spain's wine growers adapt to climate change

Employees caring for grapevines at the Torres vineyard at a 950m altitude in Tremp near Lleida in the Catalan Pyrenees. Photos: Josep Lago/AFP

For over a century, Joaquin Gay de Montella Estany's family produced wine in Spain's Mediterranean region of Catalonia but the effects of climate change have pushed them to seek higher ground.

Now their Torre del Veguer winery also has vineyards at the foot of the Pyrenees mountains – at an altitude of nearly 1,200m (3,900ft) – where temperatures are cooler.