Vintages from 2007 to 2022, kept at the estate until they were ready to pour.
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Founded in Catalonia, two years before its appellation existed.
Wine Spectator, 2002: Laurona 2000 ranked #95, when the estate was three years old.
Wines and vintages ready to pour today, from Cronos 2007 to L’Irrésistible 2022.
The age of our vines, across villages, altitudes and soils. Each one a voice in the blend.
Celler Laurona was founded in 1999 by René Barbier Senior, on one conviction: great wine cannot be hurried. The winery still works that way. It keeps its wines in its own cellar until they are ready, and only then lets them go.
Its vineyards lie in different villages of the south of Catalonia, at different altitudes, on schist, clay-limestone and granite: old Grenache and Cariñena, 30 to 88 years old, picked by hand. Each place gives something the others cannot.
Laurona is the art of bringing them together: a blend made to age with grace, composed today with a clear idea of how it will taste in five, ten or twenty years.
Fiona Fischer, René Barbier Senior’s last student, worked beside him from 2014. In 2018, after four years in the vineyards and the cellar, he handed her the Laurona cellar and, with it, the care of his project: its vines and its blends. She makes the wines by intuition and sense of place, with love and care. The library vintages from 2014 onwards passed through her hands, and her signature is on the label.
“Each vintage speaks in its own time.”Celler Laurona, since 1999
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Some wines need years. We gave them that time in our own cellar, and opened them again year after year until they were ready. Each niche is a vintage you can order today. Take a bottle off the shelf.
Before the wine, there is a root in the dark. Our vines were planted in 1964 and earlier: for more than sixty years they have reached deeper, remembering every drought and every rain. Each autumn they give a little less, and a little more of themselves. We pick each plot by hand, on the day its grapes are ready.
Then the young wine is laid to rest in wood, and learns patience. From 225-litre barrels to 5,100-litre foudres, in French oak and acacia, for 6 to 38 months. Through the wood it breathes, slowly, the way we breathe in sleep, and finds its shape.
Then silence. In the dark of our cellar the bottle keeps time, and no calendar decides. We taste, year after year, and wait. Some of our wines have waited more than a decade. Nothing leaves before it is ready.
As time stops for you, the wine’s clock starts again. After years in barrel and bottle, it takes its first breath. Air works like alchemy: in the glass it becomes something you could never have imagined. This is what time feels like, seen through nature.
Start with Mític 2016, the most open today. Then pour 2014 beside it, and taste what two more years do to the same wine.
History, maturity, blends, the library.
Heart
I came to La Figuera in 2014, after years in Dubai and China, and fell for its old vines. Galilea is my own voice: one place in every bottle, made so that you can taste where it comes from.
Pythagora is the summit, old Grenache high in La Figuera. Nautilea is the shore, near Darmós. The rosés are for the table. I trust what is in the glass more than what the market says about it.
“Nature speaks. I translate.”
PythagoraThe geometry of Grenache.
My first wine, from La Figuera, high above everything else we farm. Three angles: the terroir, the altitude, the old vines.
NautileaWhere the land bows to the sea.
From Maimó, near Darmós, our vineyard closest to the Mediterranean. Where Pythagora is the summit, Nautilea is the shore.
Technical sheets in five languages: open “About the wine” on each wine.
Different villages, altitudes, soils and vine ages: each vineyard brings its own voice to the Laurona blends. Two of them also give their own wines, for Galilea by Fiona: Maimó, near the sea, gives Nautilea, and part of La Figuera, high in the hills, gives Pythagora. Choose a vineyard to see it up close.
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Laurona is made by a small team that knows these vineyards well. Some of them have been here since the first harvest in 1999. The grapes are picked by hand, each variety is aged apart, and a wine leaves the estate only when it is ready.
“A great wine is not made. It is revealed.”Fiona Fischer
Wine lovers, sommeliers, importers and wine clubs are welcome in Falset: a walk through the old vines with the winemaker, a visit to the cellar, a tasting at the long table above the vines, and the library opened vintage by vintage, led by Fiona Fischer. By appointment.
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