Stone-walled terraces of old vines below the village of La Figuera

The Mirror of Time · since 1999

We don’t sell a vintage. We open a library.

Vintages from 2007 to 2022, kept at the estate until they were ready to pour.

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1999

Founded in Catalonia, two years before its appellation existed.

Top 100

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.

60+ yrs

The age of our vines, planted in 1964 and earlier, across villages, altitudes and soils. Each one a voice in the blend.

I·The estate

An estate that waits.

Drawing of René Barbier Senior — René Barbier Senior

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.

Fiona Fischer and René Barbier Senior with Pythagora — Fiona Fischer and René Barbier Senior, with Pythagora

Its vineyards lie in different villages of the south of Catalonia, at different altitudes, on schist, clay-limestone and granite: old Grenache and Cariñena, planted in 1964 and earlier, 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.

The Celler Laurona cellar, as drawn on the Laurona label — The cellar, as drawn on every Laurona label

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

An estate vineyard in the pine forest above Falset

An estate vineyard among the pines

Stone, vine and village

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II·The library

The Laurona Library: Legacy, Heart and large formats, one niche per vintage

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Choose a bottle to read its card.

The deeper you go, the older the wine.

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.

01
The vine
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.
02
The barrel
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.
03
The bottle
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.
04
The moment
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.

First time with Laurona?

Start with Mític 2016, the most open today. Then pour 2014 beside it, and taste what two more years do to the same wine.

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Mític, year by year →

III·The wines

Two collections, one estate.

Celler Laurona · Legacy

History, maturity, blends, the library.

Mític

The memory of a vintage.

About the wine

Timeless: a wine that years only make more elegant, never out of fashion. A blend from many vineyards, built to age and held by us until its balance arrives. Four vintages available at the same time. Mític is the wine long known simply as Laurona: vintages up to 2013 carry that name.

Vintages: 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017
Grapes: Grenache, Cariñena, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon
Ageing: 12–18 months in 500 L French oak; then in bottle at the estate until ready
Keeps: 10 to 30 years

Technical sheet · PDF

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Cronos

Time itself.

About the wine

The 2007, blended by René Barbier Senior and held in our library for nearly two decades. Calm, deep and comforting, with the complexity only very long ageing gives.

Vintage: 2007
Grapes: Grenache, Cariñena, Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon
Ageing: 24 months in 330 L French oak; then in bottle at the estate until ready
Keeps: 10 to 30 years

94IWSC 2024GoldInternational Wine & Spirits Awards 2021

Technical sheet · PDF

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Plini

When time becomes depth.

About the wine

Named after Pliny the Elder, who praised the wines of Lauro two thousand years ago. In 2019 the vintage was so fine that all of it went into Plini: there is no Mític 2019. Time, with more brilliance; it opens slowly and gains with every glass.

Vintage: 2019
Grapes: Cariñena, Syrah, Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon
Ageing: 12–18 months in 500 L French oak; then in bottle at the estate until ready
Serve: Decant it and give it time

94IWSC 2024

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Blanc de Laurona

The hidden face of Grenache.

About the wine

For years, René Barbier Senior’s favourite white wine. A white for connoisseurs, from old vines of Macabeo and Grenache Noir grown high in the hills.

Grapes: Macabeo 53%, Grenache Noir 47%
Vintage: 2021

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Heart

Fiona Fischer in the old bush vines at harvest — Fiona Fischer in La Figuera

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.” Fiona Fischer

Pythagora

The geometry of Grenache.

About the wine

My first wine, from La Figuera, high above everything else we farm. Three angles: the terroir, the altitude, the old vines.

Vintages: 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2020
Site: La Figuera · 100% Grenache · vines 60–80 years

94IWSC 2024 (2020)94Wine & Spirits Magazine (2016)94Guía Peñín (2016)

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Nautilea

Where the land bows to the sea.

About the wine

From Maimó, near Darmós, our vineyard closest to the Mediterranean. Where Pythagora is the summit, Nautilea is the shore.

Vintages: 2017 · 2018
Site: Maimó · 120 m

GoldInternational Wine & Spirits Awards 2021 (2017)92IWSC 2024 (2018)92Wine & Spirits Magazine (2018)

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L’Irrésistible

An offering from a bleeding heart.

About the wine

A saignée rosé: I let the juice run free and never press the grapes. Aged in acacia, it keeps for around ten years.

Vintage: 2022

93IWSC 2024

Technical sheet · PDF

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Super Nova

A rosé in magnum.

About the wine

A rosé I bottle mostly in magnum, for the table and for celebration.

Format: Magnum 1.5 L; 2018 also in 75 cl
Vintages: 2016 · 2017 · 2018

Technical sheet · PDF

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Technical sheets in five languages: open “About the wine” on each wine.

IV·The vineyards

Our vineyards.

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.

Map of the Celler Laurona vineyards, from La Figuera down to Maimó, with the cellar in Falset

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V·The people

Hands, time and patience.

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.

Hand picked

Many altitudes

120 – 700 m

Diverse soils

All the soils of Montsant: schist, clay-limestone, granite

“A great wine is not made. It is revealed.”Fiona Fischer

Tasting the 2023 wines from barrel in the cellar

Tasting the 2023 from barrel, with René Barbier Senior

Harvest, by hand

An old vine trunk in the estate vineyards

Old vines, worked by hand

VI·Visit the estate

Taste it where it was made.

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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