To the health of the winegrowers and winegrowers

I call my friend Jordi Crusellas, who makes grapes for the Artés cooperative, in Bages, when I hear that there has been a fire in his area. He answers me, distressed, from the tractor, and immediately sends me a video of the flames licking his picapoll vineyard. The vineyard acted as a firebreak. And that's how it happened with the Empordà fires a few years ago, too: the vineyards (la Garbet, in Peralada, Anna Espelt's...) were natural firebreaks. "I was stunned," he explains to me later, with a little more calm, "at how the flames jumped the vineyard and continued on the other side. Thanks to the vineyard, the fire was not so virulent and aggressive".