FIRE WINE in The New York Times

Flames engulfed a forest in Catalonia, Spain, ripping across a wooded expanse and heading straight for hundred of acres of pines and underbrush. But before it reached them, the inferno encountered Celler Abadal, an 800-year-old family vineyard that sprawls across the red-clay hills.

As the fire approached the tidy rows of grapes, separated from the tree line by only a few yards of barren soil, a strange thing happened.

The blaze stopped.