ALT PENEDÈS: CRISIS IN THE WINE SECTOR DUE TO COMPETITION FROM NEW WINE-PRODUCING COUNTRIES

With only a few weeks to go before the grape harvest, farmers are complaining that they still don’t know what price they will get for the grapes. No agreement has been reached to set a referential price for white grapes, and with regard to red grapes, wine producers want to reduce the minimum guaranteed price by an average of 6%, because they claim that in recent years the price had already risen …