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Terra Alta and white garnacha stand out at Barcelona Wine Week with Pedro Ballesteros MW and Ferran Centelles
The first week of February saw the celebration of a new edition of Barcelona Wine Week, Spain’s leading wine fair, where traditional grape varieties of the region took center stage in various presentations and exclusive tastings. One of the most notable events was a tasting led by the renowned sommelier [...]
LaFou El Sender shines in Tim Atkin MW’s Special Report on Catalan Wines
Renowned wine critics Tim Atkin MW and Fintan Kerr have unveiled their second Report on Catalan Wines, featuring a selection of the region's finest wines. Within their ranking, the experts reserve a podium of excellence, highlighting different categories, including “Best Value Red Wine of the Year”. This year, the title [...]
LaFou de Rams, Best White Wine according to La Vanguardia’s 2025 Wine Guide
The 2025 Wine Guide by La Vanguardia has selected LaFou de Rams 2020 as the Best White Wine of the year. Now in its fifth edition, this guide highlights the 100 must-try wines from across Spain, in a selection that, according to its authors, "is possibly the best one yet". [...]
The 2025 ABC Wine Guide highlights and rates LaFou de Rams with 97 points
Sommelier Pilar Cavero has selected more than 450 wines nationwide to create the 2025 edition of the ABC Wine Guide. Among them, she includes LaFou de Rams 2018 with 97 points. Regarding the wine, made from grapes sourced from the Viña de Rams vineyard, planted in 1966, she highlights: ‘the [...]
LaFou Celler awarded the ‘Internationalization Award’ at the 2024 Cambra Awards
On November 21, the 2024 Cambra Awards ceremony took place at the Antoni Gaudí auditorium in firaReus Events. Within the Terra Alta region, LaFou Celler received the ‘Internationalization Award.’ Organized by the Cambra de Reus, the ‘2024 Cambra Awards’ recognize companies from the five counties within the corporation’s territorial scope [...]
LaFou de Rams and LaFou de Batea awarded 93 and 92 points in the Peñín Guide 2025
With a score of 93 points, LaFou de Rams 2018 is a complex, full, spicy and long-lived wine, with ripe fruit, floral aromas and minerality. Made with white Grenache from the Rams vineyard, this wine seeks to convey the maximum expression of the variety with which it is made and [...]
LaFou De Rams 2018 awarded 97 points by Vivir el Vino magazine
Discussing the wine, made from 100% Garnacha Blanca, they emphasised that “it is pure expressiveness, complexity, breadth and elegance". Regarding production, they pointed out that "it takes advantage of the summer sea breezes to favour ripening and that production is honed to extract the maximum expression of the variety, which [...]
Gold Medal for LaFou Els Amelers at Grenaches du Monde 2024
The international competition dedicated to the Garnacha grape variety has published the results of its 12th edition. The jury, made up of a hundred international specialists, selected the best wines from this variety in the halls of the Aéro Club de France in Paris. The medal-winning wines tasted included LaFou [...]
LaFou Els Amelers in the selection of Garnacha Blanca wines of El País
Carlos Delgado, wine critic in El País, has published a selection of wines made with Garnacha Blanca. Select six, including LaFou Els Amelers. In the article, the author highlights the return to a trend of wines made with indigenous varieties, including Garnacha Blanca, which "has acquired its own character that [...]
Wine Advocate (Robert Parker) highlighted and scored points for LaFou de Rams’ Grenache Blanc with 94 points
Wine critic Luis Gutiérrez, taster of Spanish wines for Wine Advocate (Robert Parker) has published his article on Catalan wines. Among the wines tasted, all from various wine regions of Catalonia, were LaFou de Rams and LaFou de Batea. The first, LaFou de Rams, awarded 94 points by the critics, [...]
LaFou Celler wines at a new edition of Prowein Singapore and Spain’s Great Match Washington
The fifth edition of Prowein Singapore, Southeast Asia's leading wine and spirits trade fair, took place from 23 to 26 April. The show attracts a large number of leading wine and spirits buyers, from wholesalers to retailers, supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, sommeliers, opinion leaders and influencers. This edition closed with almost [...]
Lloret de Mar holds its Gastronomic Rice Workshops, with wines from LaFou Celler
The event, now in its 24th year, is organised by the Lloret de Mar Bars, Restaurants and Cafeterias Guild and the Lloret de Mar Hotel and Catering Guild. The annual event was held this year until Sunday 2 June. With menus where rice is the staple, some of Lloret de [...]
The Terra Alta region is getting ready for the second edition of the Terra Alta D.O Spring Festival
Following the success of its first edition, the Terra Alta Appellation of Origin will celebrate the second edition of the Primavera D.O. Terra Alta between the 18th and the 22nd of April. This new edition presents a complete agenda of activities that will take place in different locations of the [...]
Two wines from LaFou among the most valued in the tour of White garnachas of Ferran Centelles and jancisrobinson.com
The sommelier Ferran Centelles publishes the article "Terra Alta-Catalonia's best-value wines" in jancisrobinson.com, a prestigious international media specialized in wine. In order to write the article he carried out a blind tasting of 50 White Garnacha grape wines from the D.O. Terra Alta. A detailed tour through the virtues of [...]
LaFou de Rams 2018 in the 100 wines not to be missed this year, according to La Vanguardia’s Wine Guide 2024
La Vanguardia released its Wine Guide 2024 in February, a fourth edition featuring 100 wines the public shouldn’t miss this year. LaFou de Rams 2018 is included in the 100 wines, scored at 94 points. The guide highlights that the wine has "a sophisticated concept and elaboration, selecting white Garnacha [...]
A first quarter with features at the sector’s main international trade fairs
The sector's international events calendar kicked off in Barcelona with the fourth edition of Barcelona Wine Week, followed by the Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris trade fair. In March, Foodex and Prowein will take place. The fourth edition of Barcelona Wine Week took place in the first week of February, [...]
Some of the world’s most renowned sommeliers taste and praise LaFou de Rams 2018
30 of the world's best sommeliers, according to The 50's Best, tasted wines from around the world at the exclusive World's Best Sommeliers' Selection tasting. The sommeliers, led by Josep Roca of Celler de Can Roca, came from the restaurants Disfrutar (Barcelona), DiverXO (Madrid), Alchemist (Copenhagen), The Jane (Antwerp), Gaggan [...]
Tim Atkin MW awards 95 points to LaFou de Batea 2019, placing it in the’Wines of the Year Best Red Wines’ category
The British journalist and Master of Wine Tim Atkin and Fintan Kerr, part of Atkin's team, have presented their first report on Catalan wines. The Special Report on Catalan Wines 2024 was presented within the framework of the Barcelona Wine Week fair, alongside some of the writers’ conclusions (such as [...]
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New design by LaFou de Batea coincides with the release of the new 2019 vintage
LaFou de Batea’s new 2019 vintage, one of the winery’s most iconic and personal wines, will soon be released to the market. This new vintage coincides with a change in the wine label’s design, aligning with the elegant, delicate style that characterises the winery’s packaging for its wines. LaFou de [...]
Excellent scores for LaFou de Batea in the Proensa and Peñín Guides 2024
LaFou de Batea 2018 recently obtained 96 points in the Proensa Guide 2024. It emphasises that the wine is "broad and deep. Fruity aromas, complexity, floral tones and balsamic notes from beneath the mountains. Balanced, fleshy, fresh, tasty, expressive and with fine aromas." In the Peñín Guide 2024, a national [...]
LaFou de Rams, the winery’s new wine, scores 97 points in the ABC Guide 2024
This score ranks the wine from LaFou Winery as one of the five best white wines in this reference guide to Spanish wines. The guide highlights that the wine "manages to transmit the best expression of white Grenache and the special characteristics of the Rams vineyard. An exciting, marvellous wine, [...]
93 points for LaFou de Batea 2018 in the Peñín Guide 2024
During the first half of the year, the wine tasting team of the Peñín guide, a model both nationally and internationally, evaluated around 9.800 wines from over 2000 cellars around the country. With a score of 93 points for LaFou de Batea, the guide highlights bouquets of black fruit and [...]
New edition of the Wine Party of Batea
On the 5th of August, a new edition of the Wine Party of Batea took place, as part of the acts of the village’s local festival, celebrated from the 4th to the 8th of August. The Wine exhibition began at 19h under the porches of Batea’s Town Hall. The visitors [...]
The Decanter magazine recommends LaFou el Sender in a selection of wines from the Terra Alta D.O.
Beth Willard, the wine tasting person in charge of Spanish wines for Decanter, has recently published an article in the magazine entitled "Experts choice: Terra Alta", where she selects up to 18 wines from the Terra Alta region found in the British and American markets, among them LaFou El Sender [...]