The Corpinnat Enoteca Brut Nature 2009 from Gramona and the Clàssic Penedès Finca Els Gorgs 2013 from AT Roca have climbed the podium of the Wine Guide of Catalonia 2024 with the highest rating (9.89 points), and also as best sparkling wines. At the award ceremony for the 2024 edition, the authors of the Guide, who are stepping aside, wanted to pay a posthumous tribute to Xavier Gramona, who was vice-president of Gramona and co-president of Corpinnnat. The best average score was for the Llopart winery (Corpinnat and DO Penedès). Honorary awards have been given this year to Enric Solergibert of Celler Solergibert (trajectory); to Carlota Pena from Vinyes d’Olivardots and Andrea Miró from Celler Jordi Miró (future) and to Vicenç Ferré and Oriol Pérez from Tudela (territory0).
The DO Montsant Guix Vermell 2021 from Terroir Sense Fronteres and Venus de La Figuera 2019 from Venus La Universal have been awarded as the best red wines of the year together with the DO Calificada Priorat Partida Bellvisos 2018 from Sara Pérez and René Barbier Meyer and the Scala Dei Masdeu 2018. The best whites were the DO Empordà Vd’O 9 of 2020 from Vinyes d’Olivardots and the DO Pla de Bages Macabeu from Solergibert 2021. The DO Catalunya InAnnat 2022 from Mascorrubí and the DO Catalunya InAnnat 2022 from Mascorrubí were distinguished as the best rosé wines Terra Alta La Tarentina 2022 by Herencia Altés.
For its part, the DO Cava Els Lledoners Reserva Brut Nature 2021 from Can Suriol was awarded as best sparkling rosé, and as best ancestral to the sparkling wine without DO Ancestral Montònega 2022 from Can Sumoi. The DO Alella Marfil Molt Dolç Soleres 2003 and the DO Costers del Segre Ònra Vintage Tardana Solera were proclaimed as the best sweets. The DO Calificada Priorat Memorias del Priorat de Costers del Priorat has earned the award for best stale wine. And Antich Rerseca produced in Maieutiké Winery has been established as the best vermouth.
In La Guia you can find, in addition to the list of this year’s winning wines, the 1,258 references tasted for this edition. The Guide, which went on sale yesterday, is completed with several opinion articles from personalities linked to the sector, and an extensive essay where its authors express their vision of the world of Catalan wine and where the sector should go to “continue improving.” in the future”.
The new edition was presented yesterday Monday at the Razzmatazz room in Barcelona, ??where more than 400 references from up to 112 wineries could be tasted. This year’s party, the fourteenth in the history of La Guia, has also been the public farewell of its directors until now, Sílvia Naranjo and Jordi Alcover, who gave up authorship to direct only the logistics of successive editions. They will be relieved by Sergi Sevé and Fran Ortiz.
