The winegrowers of Penedès have not been so afraid of the future as they are today. They have several indicators to reinforce their fear: Freixenet (which is 100% owned by the German group Henkell) for the past two years is believed to have stopped producing forty million bottles annually within the DO Cava (a figure the winery neither confirms nor denies), last harvest there was an excess of grapes and base wine, and the figures being released on the sale of wines and sparkling wines in general are not optimistic. For all these reasons, the president of the Associació de Viticultors del Penedès, Josep Anton Vendrell, states that they are living through “a very critical situation, in which 35% of the planted vineyard in Penedès would be surplus (between seven thousand and ten thousand hectares of vineyard), and in this upcoming harvest, the price of grapes could plummet; last year the DO Cava paid between 46 or 60 euro cents”. If there is surplus vineyard, if there is aid from the European Union to uproot it, it is clear that the territory could change in a few years to cease being the green lung between Barcelona and Tarragona, and give way to industrial estates or fields with solar panels, historical threats derived from urban pressure. To this situation is added a certainty: the transfer of some wineries from the DO Cava to Corpinnat, a brand that works to ensure an agreement with the winegrower with a steadily increasing price each year.

The StopAgroparc platform, which brings together some 137 organizations, has filed an administrative appeal against the agropark project of the supermarket and food chain Ametller Origen in Alt Penedès. The organizations justify the lawsuit, directed against the Gelida City Council (Alt Penedès) and the Department of Territory of the Generalitat (Catalan Government), by considering the project "unlawful" and includes "serious environmental, urban planning, and procedural irregularities."