We interview the president of the DO Cava, Marta Vidal (Puigdàlber, 1984), in the town where she lives, Vilanova i la Geltrú. She took office on June 11th, after elections she won against four other candidacies. Marta Vidal is also the general director of the Vallformosa winery, which brings between ten and twelve million bottles of cava to the market annually. Her father, Vicenç Vidal, is one of the winery's shareholders, and it was the partners who proposed to the father that he give the position of general director to his daughter, who was educated at Pompeu Fabra University, Esade, and has work experience in banking, specifically at Bankinter. When she was thirty years old, she left everything and went to live in the USA, in San Francisco and New York. Upon her return, in 2017, she joined the winery, located in Vilobí del Penedès. Marta Vidal arrives at the interview prepared with written pages, with underlined phrases, and with a very clear discourse, which she summarizes with constant words: dialogue, future, and sustainability.

The country's main wine-growing organizations are joining forces against the "abusive" purchase prices expected in this year's harvest. In a joint statement collected this Thursday by Unió de Pagesos, the associations denounce that the compensation being discussed in the sector by large wineries such as Jaume Serra – part of the García Carrión group – and other producers, such as Celler Can Pagès or Vins Font, are around 0.3 euros per kilogram of grapes, a figure that is less than half the reference production cost of between 0.53 and 0.56 euros per kilo established by the Institut Català de la Vinya i el Vi (Incavi).

If you are given the choice between two wines and all you know is that one is from young vines and the other is from old vines, which would you choose? Wines made from old vines attract attention because they come from vines that can be older than the oldest person at the table. The age of the vineyard may lead one to assume that the wine must be of high quality, but the fact that it is made from an old vineyard does not mean that the wine always has to be good.