Guía Peñín
Guía Peñín de las Burbujas
Enoteca Gramona 2004 gets the Podium with 99 points among the more than 1,100 sparkling wines from Spain, France, Italy and Mexico that are tasted in the contest.
Gourmets wine guide
In a rigorous blind tasting, this heterogeneous group of experts considers Gramona, for 18 years, the Best sparkling wines.
Decanter
Europe’s first Anglosaxon wine magazine.
Decanter magazine already has its favorite Spanish wines for the Great Tasting in New York on 6/18 within the edition of Decanter Fine Wine Encounter.
For Julie Sheppard, the editor in charge of Spanish wines, her favorites are Gran Reserva 904 2011, the great classic from Rioja Alta, and the sparkling Gramona Celler Batlle 2011. 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”
Jancis Robinson
Wine Advocate
2022 Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate magazine, through its ambassador and taster in Spain, Luis Gutiérrez, has rated Enoteca Brut Nature 2006, with a score of 96+/100, and has dedicated this comment to it “The excellent Enoteca 2006 presents us with a fabulous vintage”. Five other Gramona sparkling wines, La Cuvée 2017, Innoble, Imperial 2015, III Lustros 2014 and Celler Batlle 2011, received scores above 91 points.
2019 Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate taster for Spain, awarded Enoteca Gramona 2004 with 96 points, ranking it as the best sparkling wine (tied) in the latest edition of the U.S. guide. “A wine that maintains commendable freshness and reveals complexity from its long lees ageing (…) the palate is quite sharp.”
2018 Gramona has ten references with more than 90 points.
2012 Let us consider what is unquestionably the most impressive portfolio of sparkling wines from Penedes that money can buy’. Neal Martin
The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships
International sparkling wine competition led by Tom Stevenson and Essi Avellan MW.
2022 The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championship has cataloged Imperial 2015 as “Best in Show”
2020 Imperial 2015 obtains the award for Best Sparkling Wine in Spain and Best Corpinnat.
2019 Celler Batlle 2019 recognized as the best Sparkling 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 of the world”.
2013 Enoteca Brut Nature.
2001 Best Sparkling Wine from Penedès.
World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine
The most complete encyclopedia of sparkling wines in the world, edited by Tom Stevenson and Essi Avellan MW.
2019 Gramona is valued as the best winery in the country, with its 90 points it equals the position of mythical Champagne houses. “Gramona has had a reputation as the creator of the best sparkling wines in the Penedès. (…) Celler Batlle, is by far the best sparkling wine in the country (…). Subtle, deep and structured.
2013 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
Falstaff
The most influential wine publication in central Europe.
2022 Gramona Celler Batlle 2011, 95 points. Between the two best sparkling wines, after tasting 9 sparkling wines (Cava and Corpinnat).
2019 Gramona leads the sparkling wine category in blind tasting.
2018 Celler Batlle best spanish sparkling wine with 96 points. III Lustros and Imperial accompany it on the podium.
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal placed Gramona III Lustros among the world’s best sparkling wines, declaring a paradigm shift for the world of the spanish sparklings.
‘It might have taken 130 years, but on this evidence the tasting of Gramona III Lustros- , it seems that some spanish producers of sparkling wines have finally earned a place on the top table of Sparkling wine.’
Will Lyons, wine journalist
The New York Times
Gramona, the before and after of the sparkling wines from Penedès.
Eric Asimov, chief wine writer (2010)
The world of Fine Wine
This publication is targeted at an international audience of demanding wine lovers.
Catalan nobility article. (…) “This article is for lovers and regular drinkers of Champagne, to tear off their blinkers and and discover what they have been missing: a Mediterranean sparkling – wine of equivalent nobility”
“(…) Gramona, the most successful winery in our tasting
Enoteca Gramona: Best Sparkling Wine from Spain in a blind tasting. 96 points
Bettane & Desseauve
2006 ‘Gramona, one of the 365 greatest wines in the world.’
Michel Bettane,
leading French wine critic.
Berry Bros & Rudd
One of the oldest and most prestigious wine merchants in the UK (1698), the company has been the official supplier to the Royal Family since the time of George III.
‘Surprising. We have found a spanish sparkling wine that competes with the finest Champagnes.’
Wine Enthusiast
2013 “Gramona is the best cava and belongs in its own right to the best sparkling wines in the world”. Tom Stevenson.
2010 The American publication considered Gramona on the top ten Spanish wines.
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.
2022 – Celler Batlle 2010, Best Wine of Spain
2020 – Celler Batlle 2010 as the best Wine of Spain
2019 – Gramona III Lustros Best Sparkling
2018 – Gramona III Lustros Best Sparkling and Marc de Gramona Best Spirits
2016 – Gramona III Lustros Best Sparkling
2015 – Gramona III Lustros Best Sparkling & Hotel Ritz Award Best Sparkling & Marc de Gramona Best Spirits
2014 – Gramona Imperial Best Sparkling and Marc de Gramona Best Spirits
2013 – Gramona III Lustros Best Sparkling
2010 – Gramona Imperial Best Sparkling
Wine Life
One of the most influential wine magazines in the Netherlands. Gramona Imperial 2010 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.
Premis Vinari
2022 Gold Vinari Medal for Rosé, La Cuvee, Imperial and Innoble. Silver wine medal for III Lustros in the category Sparkling White Wines
from vintages 2016 and earlier.
2021 Award for the Best Environmental Wine Tourism Activity of the Year.
2020 Vinari Award for the Best Ecological Project.
Tim Atkin
British Master of Wine
About III Lustros: “quite oaky, savoury, highly individual style of sparkling with noticeable oak. Umami flavours and tannin that wouldn’t look out of place in a light red. Appealing sweet honey and patisserie notes. Dry and assertive. Complex, dense and unique. Made from Xarel·lo. Pain d’epice, honey, white flower and lemon on the nose. A touch of salted almond with a waxy texture. Refreshing.” He awards 96 points out of 100 to III Lustros and 97 to Enoteca 2006 about which he writes: “Can’t think of a better sparkling wine than this in Spain. Stunning”.
Top 50 most admired wine brands
Gramona was placed 26th in Drinks International magazine’s “Top 50 Most Admired Wine Brands 2016” ranking. It is the first time a traditional method sparkling wine has been included in this list. It is also a first for a sparkling wine from Penedès.
Guide of Vins de Catalunya
2022 9.83 points to Enoteca Gramona 2006, positioning it as the Guide’s Best Wine. Equal to Turó d’en Mota 2007 and Sabaté i Coca Reserva Familiar 2012. Celler Batlle 2011 and III Lustros 2013, both with 9.81 points, and Imperial 2015 with 9.51, are also at the top of the wines tasted this edition.
2020 Enoteca Gramona 2004 ranked as Best Traditional Blend. “Elegant, extraordinary”
2019 Gramona’s sparkling wines are among the best of the Guide for another year, after Enoteca 2002 was considered Best Sparkling Wine by the Vins de Catalunya Guide.
2018. With this distinction, Enoteca 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.
Anuario de vinos El País
Eight years in the honor podium with the highest scores for Celler Batlle, Enoteca Gramona, and III Lustros.
2020 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.
2019 “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”.
2018 “Sparklings endowed with a very pronounced personality, a level in which there is not too much competition”.
El mundo vino
Euposia
The journal of Italian wine
2017 “Celler Batlle obtains the Best Sparkling Award from a Certified Organic and Biodynamic Winery”
2014 ‘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 III Lustros named as the best sparkling wine made from a native grape variety.
Beppe Giuliano, journalist and owner of the magazine.
VINO Guía ABC
Since 2008 Gramona leads on the top of the spanish sparkling wines selection with Gramona III Lustros.
‘Pleasant nose. Total integration… Different from almost everything else. A splendid wine…’
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
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 Celler Batlle
Nariz de Oro Española
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.
Perswijn
2015 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”.
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.
Revista Wine & Spirits
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
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.
The Italian Wine Journal
Challenge Internazionale Euposia
2022 III Lustros, Best Sparkling Wine of Local Varieties