The Torres family’s philosophy of winegrowing begins with respect for the land. In all vineyards and land, Torres completely avoids the use of chemical treatments, replacing them with biological alternatives, following the viticulture traditions of Torres’ ancestors. Torres investment in “green” projects has been accelerated even more with the Torres & Earth program, put in place in 2007 with a 10 million EUR budget for a 10 years period. Torres & Earth is not only a CO₂ reduction program, but actually a wider ecological-sustainable program that covers projects like renewable energies, optimization of water use, eco-efficiency in transport – for example using lighter bottles – ground-breaking research projects and vineyard-adaption-measures. Torres has committed itself to reduce CO₂ emissions by 30% per bottle by 2020 compared to 2008 levels. On sector level, Torres was one of the initiator’s of WCP (“Wineries for Climate Protection”) that started in 2011 with a symposium in Barcelona, calling for a 20% reduction in CO₂ emissions by 2020 and other 5 environmental action points. Since then important progress was made in the process of auditing the wineries and establishing the rules and methods for the homologation. The ecological record of Bodegas Torres is known and valued internationally by for example the Drinks Business Green Award of 2011.

Role in the project: TORRES is the end user of the fertilizer product and will validate the use of the organic fertilizer on vineyards.