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Guía Peñín

Enoteca Gramona Brut Nature, Best Sparkling Wine of the Guide with 99 points, and one of the 12 best wines (100-99). Celler Batlle and Lustros gets 98 and 95 points.

Celler Batlle and Enoteca Gramona, head the sparkling wine podium with 98 points. Accompanies them III Lustros with 97 points.

Enoteca Gramona is classified as Best Wine, the only Sparkling Wine of the Podium with 99 points. Celler Batlle, Lustros and the 1999 Magnum goes along with it on the Podium.

«They have done it again: Gramona Celler Batlle is, plain and simple, the successful result of a pioneering and innovative vision of sparkling wine production». This reference sparkling wine is among the six best wines in Spain with 99 points.

Gramona consolidates its leadership in the sparkling category with six references on the podium.

Enoteca Gramona reaffirms once again the positioning of the top sparkling wines reaching the Olympus of the Peñín Guide. Best Sparkling Wine with 98 points, being the highest punctuation given in this edition. Both vintages are described by the guide as cavas «blessed by a wide range of registers […], all surrounded by a very long and fine bubble and with a structured finish».

In the last edition, Enoteca Gramona was awarded as the Best Sparkling Wine and Best Wine in Spain, which was considered by the guide itself as «[…] a historic event of great significance, for opening a new path in the development of the appellation that supports the most sophisticated elaborations […]», since for the first time in the history of Spanish wine, a sparkling wine is chosen as the best Guide of wines. Enoteca Gramona gets 99 points, only granted five times in the 27 years of history of the most widespread and translated Guide of wines of Spain.

Guía de Vinos Gourmets

In rigorous blind tasting, this heterogeneous group of experts considers Gramona, for 18 years, the Best Sparkling Wine.

Celler Batlle, with 97 points, among the Best Spanish Sparkling Wines, with other six Gramona.

Enoteca Gramona, with 98 points, is the Best Sparkling Wine of the Guide ex aequo.

98 points to Celler Batlle, naming it Best Sparkling Wine of the guide ex aequo. All the wines presented by Gramona are included in the select group of Best Wines of Spain.

Enoteca Gramona enters the League of 99 by obtaining the highest score in the guide and is positioned among the best-rated wines in the history of the guide.

III Lustros is the sparkling wine awarded by readers.

Decanter

Europe’s first Anglosaxon wine magazine.

Decanter makes its presentation in New York choosing Celler Batlle as icons of Spanish wine.

For Julie Sheppard, the editor in charge of Spanish wines, among her favorites is the sparkling Gramona Celler Batlle. She points out that Gramona is her favorite cava producer and that its long-lived wines set a benchmark in the category. «If you have never tried it before, come to this wine».

Gold Medal for Imperial at the Decanter World Wine Awards, being the best valued sparkling in the country.

Platinum Medal for Lustros in the Decanter World Wine Awards, being the best valued sparkling in the country.

Decanter Most Exciting Wines: Gramona Lustros occupies one of the few places on this prestigious list, where experts from around the world nominate the wines that most impressed them during the year.

«Celler Batlle is exceptionally long and memorable», which is why it topped the list of the «24 essential Spanish wines to store in your cellar». Article by Sarah Jane Evans, MW and Pedro Ballesteros, MW.

Gramona is on the podium of sparkling wines from Penedès in the Top Spanish Sparkling Guide written by several Masters of Wine. «Gramona is more sumptuous and refined than I ever dreamed that a sparkling wine from Penedès could be …» Andrew Jefford.

In the article «Premium Cava», Rebecca Gibb includes in her Top 10 Celler Batlle, III Lustros and Imperial.

The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships

International sparkling wine competition led by Tom Stevenson and Essi Avellan MW.

Imperial has cataloged as Best in Show.

Imperial obtains the award for Best Sparkling Wine in Spain and Best Corpinnat.

Celler Batlle is recognized as the Best Sparkling Wine in the Country and the Best Corpinnat, and they describe it as «(…) by far, a fine and elegant wine considered one of the best sparkling wines in the world».

Falstaff

The most influential wine publication in central Europe.

Celler Batlle, 95 points. Best Sparkling Wine ex aequo.

Gramona leads the sparkling wine category in blind tasting.

Celler Batlle best sparkling wine with 96 points. Lustros and Imperial accompany it on the podium.

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AEPEV

Spanish Association of Wine Journalists and Writers.

The members of the AEPEV choose yearly the Best Spanish Wines and Spirits among more than 640 brands.

Gramona Lustros, Best Wine of Spain.

Celler Batlle, Best Wine of Spain.

Gramona Lustros, Best Sparkling Wine.

Gramona Lustros, Best Sparkling Wine and Licor de Marc de Gramona Best Spirits.

Imperial, Best Sparkling Wine.

Gramona Lustros, Best Sparkling Wine and Licor de Marc de Gramona Best Spirits.

Gramona Lustros, Best Sparkling Wine and Licor de Marc de Gramona Best Spirits.

Gramona Lustros, Best Wine of Spain.

The Wine Advocate

 Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate magazine

Enoteca Gramona obtains 96+ points. Six other Gramona sparkling wines gets an score over 91 points.

Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate taster for Spain, awards Enoteca Gramona 96 points, ranking it as the best sparkling wine (exaequo) in the latest edition of the American guide. «A wine that maintains a commendable freshness and reveals complexity due to its long aging on the lees».

«Let us consider what is unquestionably the most impressive portfolio of sparkling wines that money can buy». Neal Martin.

Tim Atkin

British Master of Wine 

Wrotes about Enoteca Gramona: «Can’t think of a better sparkling wine than this in Spain. Stunning».

The Italian Wine Journal

Challenge Internazionale Euposia

Gramona Lustros, Best Sparkling Wine of Local Varieties.

“Celler Batlle obtains the Best Sparkling Award from a Certified Organic and Biodynamic Winery”

‘This icon of Spanish winemaking (…), paved the way, later followed by many other occupants of Penedés (…).  With its elegance and character it can compete with the best champagne’. Gramona Lustros named as the best sparkling wine made from a native grape variety. Beppe Giuliano, journalist and owner of the magazine.
 

Premis Vinari

Gold Medal for Rosé and La Cuvee. Gold Vinari Medal for Innoble and Imperial in White Sparkling before 2016 section. Josep Lluís Gramona i Batlle gets the Wine Professional Lifetime Award.

Award for the Best Environmental Wine Tourism Activity of the Year.

Vinari Award for the Best Ecological Project.

Guia de Vins de Catalunya

9.86 points to Enoteca Gramona, positioning it as the Guide’s Best Wine (ex aequo). Celler Batlle with 9.83 points, Gramona Lustros with 9,80 points, and Imperial with 9.50, are also at the top of the wines tasted this edition.

Enoteca Gramona ranked as Best Traditional Blend. «Elegant, extraordinary».

Gramona’s sparkling wines are among the best of the Guide for another year, after Enoteca Gramona was considered Best Sparkling Wine.

With this distinction, Enoteca Gramona consolidates its recognition in this guide. And it was already chosen Best Sparkling Wine of the year in 2015 and Best Wine of the Guide in 2013, among all categories.

Guía Peñín de las Burbujas

Specialized publication on sparkling wines from Spain, France, Italy and Mexico.

Enoteca Gramona gets the Podium with 99 points.

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Revista Wine & Spirits

This prestigious American magazine considers Celler Batlle as the best sparkling wine of Spain and one of the best internationally.

Top 100 Wineries of the Year. For the third year Gramona has been invited to this festival of the world’s 100 best wineries. Amongst the other sparkling wine producers involved are: Krug, Louis Roederer and Bollinger.

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Jancis Robinson

Robinson, with the specialist on Spanish wines Ferran Centelles, once again highlights the quality of Gramona’s long-aging sparkling wines. Gramona Lustros has obtained the best score in the country, and is among the best valued sparkling wines worldwide. He describes this wine as «excellent», and challenges that «open-minded Champagne makers should try this».

Celler Batlle is the best Spanish sparkling wine (exaequo). In her last analysis of the sector situates, after the blind tasting, Gramona Lustros the sparkling wine with the best punctuation.

Celler Batlle with the best punctuation in the sparkling wine annual blind tasting.

In his latest analysis of the sector, after the blind tasting, Gramona Lustros ranks the sparkling wine from Penedès with the best score.

«Gramona is by far the finest sparkling wine around, and belongs among the greatest sparkling wines of the world». Tom Stevenson.

World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine

The most complete encyclopedia of sparkling wines in the world, edited and updated by Tom Stevenson and Essi Avellan MW.

Gramona is considered as the best winery in the country, and with 90 points gets the position of the mythical Champagne houses. «Gramona has had the reputation of being the creator of the best sparkling wines in the Penedès. (…) Celler Batlle, is by far the best sparkling wine in the country (…)».

Gramona equals or improves the scores of some of the most prestigious champagnes. “Celler Batlle is a great sparkling wine and belongs in its own right to the best sparkling wines in the world.” Essi Avellan MW

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Top 50 most admired wine brands

Gramona was placed 26th in Drinks International magazine’s Top 50 Most Admired Wine Brands of the World 2016 ranking. It is the first time a traditional method sparkling wine has been included in this list. 

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The world of Fine Wine

This publication is targeted at an international audience of demanding wine lovers.

Enoteca Gramona: Best Sparkling Wine in blind tasting with 96 points. «Catalan nobility». (…) «This article is for lovers and regular drinkers of Champagne, to tear off their blinkers and discover what they have been missing: a Mediterranean sparkling wine of equivalent nobility».

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Wine Enthusiast

“Gramona is the best sparkling wine and belongs in its own right to the best sparkling wines in the world”. Tom Stevenson.

The American publication considered Gramona on the top ten Spanish wines.

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The Wall Street Journal

«They might have taken 130 years, but on this evidence (the tasting of Gramona Lustros), it seems that sparkling wine has finally earned a place on the top table of sparkling wines». Will Lyons

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The New York Times

«Gramona, the before and after of sparkling wine». Eric Asimov.

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Bettane & Desseauve

Top French Wine Critic.

Choose Celler Batlle and Gramona Lustros in his book Les 300 Plus Grand Vins du Monde.

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Berry Bros & Rudd

One of the oldest and most prestigious wine merchants in the UK (1698).

«Surprising. We have found a sparkling wine that rivals the finest Champagnes».

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Wine Life

One of the most influential wine magazines in the Netherlands.

Gramona Imperial choosen Best Sparkling Wine after a blind tasting of 200 references of champagne and sparkling wines of the world.

«Gramona Imperial has been positioned as the best sparkling wine you can buy in the Neatherlands, even ahead of renowned champagnes». Niek Beute, European Champagne Ambassador in the Netherlands.

Anuario de vinos El País

Eight years in the honor podium with the highest scores for Enoteca Gramona, Celler Batlle, and Gramona Lustros.

Gramona Enoteca 2004 on the “roll of honour” of Spain’s best wines and the highest rated sparkling wine in the El País Anuario de Vinos (Wine Yearbook).

“Craftsmanship, the impeccable management of long ageing processes and, above all, the ability to listen to and interpret the environment.” *Gramona Imperial, with 95 points, is considered the best sparkling wine in terms of satisfaction-for-money, in a section of El Anuario that directs readers to wines of extraordinary quality that won’t break the bank.

“The value of going against the grain when nobody believed in long ageing for sparklings, the certainty of the chosen path and the reality of a goal of quality fulfilled puts this winery in the front row of the excellence of Sparkling of the World”.

“Sparklings endowed with a very pronounced personality, a level in which there is not too much competition”.

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El mundo

‘Cava in the Olympus -the greatest of cavas – Gramona caused a sensation when tasted alongside the most prestigious Champagnes.’

Federico Oldenburg,
Spainsh renowned wine expert journalist of El Mundo.

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Perswijn

The most recognised wine magazine in the Netherlands named Gramona Celler Batlle as the best sparkling wine in a blind tasting at the “Competition of Spanish Wines”.

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El mundo vino

Gramona Lustros on the “roll of honour”

«Gramona has made the path of its own style with true greatness in the different Catalan terroirs, mainly in Penedès»

This prestigious tasting group considers Enoteca Gramona 2002 as the best sparkling wine og the country. It was the first time this vintage had been tasted by a committee. The results confirm the continuity in the quality of Enoteca’s vintages

The group describes Gramona Lustros 2007: ‘exceptional value for money’. (…) Enoteca Gramona stands out– with a 1997 disgorged three months ago, impressive freshness and fineness.’

Enoteca Brut Nature among the best 3 wines in Spain. These awards recognize the finest and most outstanding wines. Its prestigious tasting group stated: ‘The Gramona family has built up years of research and development in the field of long-aged sparkling wines. (….) a wine that clearly and definitively demonstrates the highest quality in terms of sparkling wines.’

Gramona Celler Batlle 2002 took the podium showing greater levels of harmony and elegance. The tasters  have considered it an exceptional vintage.

Gramona Lustros and Gramona Celler Batlle, Best Sparkling Wines of the year.

Gramona Celler Batlle 2000 chosen among the three best Spanish wines.

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Nariz de Oro

The Spanish national sommelier competition, a blind tasting with more than 200 participants, has recognised the quality of Gramona wines.

Considered best sparkling wine for 4 years.

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Expansión – Fuera de serie

Sparkling from Penedès in the Olympus. Gramona caused a sensation when tasted alongside the most prestigious Champagnes.’

Federico Oldenburg, Spainsh renowned wine expert journalist.

The 25 Spanish wines to try before you die.’

Juan Manuel Bellver

VINO Guía ABC

Since 2008 Gramona leads on the top of the spanish sparkling wines selection with Gramona Lustros.

‘Pleasant nose. Total integration… Different from almost everything else. A splendid wine…’

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El Periódico – Gourmets

Los Impitoyables, a prestigious tasting group in Catalonia, rates the best sparkling wines from Penedès in a blind tasting. Celler Batlle and Imperial are leading the list.

Verema.com

The most visited Spanish-speaking winery website of the world that counts with the votes of hundreds of Internet users.

Sparkling wine of the year Gramona Lustros 2007

Sparkling wine of the year Gramona Imperial 2008

Gramona, winery with the best career of lasts years.
Sparkling wine of the year Gramona Celler Batlle

Sparkling win of the year Gramona  Lustros