Fighting fire with wine

Wine casks at Celler Abadal in Santa Maria d’Horta d’Avinyo. Celler Abadal became the first winemaker to receive the Fire Wine’ label. — Samuel Aranda/The New York Times

FLAMES engulfed a forest in Catalonia, Spain, ripping across a wooded expanse and heading straight for hundreds of hectares of pines and underbrush.

But before it reached them, the inferno encountered Celler Abadal, an 800-year-old family vineyard that sprawls across the red-clay hills.