The Cava company has confirmed it will lay off the majority of its workforce in north Spain due to a prolific drought that has lasted for more than three years.
As Catalonia continues to wrangle with one of its worst droughts on record, Louis Thomas discovers how the Spanish region's wine industry is attempting to work through this prolonged climatic disaster.
Sparkling wine giant Henkell Freixenet went all out with the launch of new product Mionetto Aperitivo at ProWein yesterday in an explosion of orange, reports Sarah Neish.