10 JUN 2024
With a score of 93 points, LaFou de Rams 2018 is a complex, full, spicy and long-lived wine, with ripe fruit, floral aromas and minerality. Made with white Grenache from the Rams vineyard, this wine seeks to convey the maximum expression of the variety ...
31 MAY 2024
Discussing the wine, made from 100% Garnacha Blanca, they emphasised that “it is pure expressiveness, complexity, breadth and elegance".
Regarding production, they pointed out that "it takes advantage of the summer sea breezes to favour ripening ...
23 MAY 2024
The international competition dedicated to the Garnacha grape variety has published the results of its 12th edition.
The jury, made up of a hundred international specialists, selected the best wines from this variety in the halls of the Aéro Club ...
20 MAY 2024
Carlos Delgado, wine critic in El País, has published a selection of wines made with Garnacha Blanca. Select six, including LaFou Els Amelers.
In the article, the author highlights the return to a trend of wines made with indigenous varieties, ...
17 MAY 2024
Wine critic Luis Gutiérrez, taster of Spanish wines for Wine Advocate (Robert Parker) has published his article on Catalan wines. Among the wines tasted, all from various wine regions of Catalonia, were LaFou de Rams and LaFou de Batea.
The first, ...
14 MAY 2024
The fifth edition of Prowein Singapore, Southeast Asia's leading wine and spirits trade fair, took place from 23 to 26 April.
The show attracts a large number of leading wine and spirits buyers, from wholesalers to retailers, supermarkets, hotels, ...
02 MAY 2024
The event, now in its 24th year, is organised by the Lloret de Mar Bars, Restaurants and Cafeterias Guild and the Lloret de Mar Hotel and Catering Guild.
The annual event was held this year until Sunday 2 June. With menus where rice is the staple, ...
06 MAR 2024
Following the success of its first edition, the Terra Alta Appellation of Origin will celebrate the second edition of the Primavera D.O. Terra Alta between the 18th and the 22nd of April.
This new edition presents a complete agenda of activities ...
01 MAR 2024
The sommelier Ferran Centelles publishes the article "Terra Alta-Catalonia's best-value wines" in jancisrobinson.com, a prestigious international media specialized in wine.
In order to write the article he carried out a blind tasting of 50 White ...
22 FEB 2024
La Vanguardia released its Wine Guide 2024 in February, a fourth edition featuring 100 wines the public shouldn’t miss this year.
LaFou de Rams 2018 is included in the 100 wines, scored at 94 points. The guide highlights that the wine has "a ...
19 FEB 2024
The sector's international events calendar kicked off in Barcelona with the fourth edition of Barcelona Wine Week, followed by the Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris trade fair. In March, Foodex and Prowein will take place.
The fourth edition of Barcelona ...
16 FEB 2024
30 of the world's best sommeliers, according to The 50's Best, tasted wines from around the world at the exclusive World's Best Sommeliers' Selection tasting.
The sommeliers, led by Josep Roca of Celler de Can Roca, came from the restaurants Disfrutar ...
08 FEB 2024
The British journalist and Master of Wine Tim Atkin and Fintan Kerr, part of Atkin's team, have presented their first report on Catalan wines.
The Special Report on Catalan Wines 2024 was presented within the framework of the Barcelona Wine Week fair, ...
22 DIC 2023
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21 DIC 2023
LaFou de Batea’s new 2019 vintage, one of the winery’s most iconic and personal wines, will soon be released to the market. This new vintage coincides with a change in the wine label’s design, aligning with the elegant, delicate style that characterises ...
11 DIC 2023
LaFou de Batea 2018 recently obtained 96 points in the Proensa Guide 2024. It emphasises that the wine is "broad and deep. Fruity aromas, complexity, floral tones and balsamic notes from beneath the mountains. Balanced, fleshy, fresh, tasty, expressive ...
07 DIC 2023
This score ranks the wine from LaFou Winery as one of the five best white wines in this reference guide to Spanish wines. The guide highlights that the wine "manages to transmit the best expression of white Grenache and the special characteristics ...
04 SEPT 2023
During the first half of the year, the wine tasting team of the Peñín guide, a model both nationally and internationally, evaluated around 9.800 wines from over 2000 cellars around the country.
With a score of 93 points for LaFou de Batea, the ...
01 SEPT 2023
On the 5th of August, a new edition of the Wine Party of Batea took place, as part of the acts of the village’s local festival, celebrated from the 4th to the 8th of August.
The Wine exhibition began at 19h under the porches of Batea’s Town ...
19 JUL 2023
Beth Willard, the wine tasting person in charge of Spanish wines for Decanter, has recently published an article in the magazine entitled "Experts choice: Terra Alta", where she selects up to 18 wines from the Terra Alta region found in the British ...
30 JUN 2023
On the 11th edition of the contest, held on this occasion in New York and with the objective of awarding the best Grenache wines in the world – be it wines 100% Grenache or blending of wine-, the wine LaFou de Batea has obtained one of the Gold ...
29 JUN 2023
Last June 26th the 12 members of the new Governing Council that will represent the Appellation of Origin Terra Alta were appointed (Ramon Roqueta Segalés, among them). This mandate will begin mid 2023, with a term of office of four years.
Turnout ...
22 MAY 2023
The other 2 wines from the cellar, LaFou El Sender and LaFou Els Amelers, also awarded with 90 points.
Delicious is one of the adjectives that the critic uses to describe the wine LaFou de Batea, awarded with 92 points. "A hint of iodine and ...
25 ABR 2023
The Primavera DO Terra Alta (Terra Alta Designation of Origin Spring weeks) took place last week; a week of cultural and gastronomic activities, with the wines of the Terra Alta Designation of Origin- which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year- ...
23 MAR 2023
During the first term of the year, LaFou Celler was present in the main International fairs of the sector: the Barcelona Wine Week (BWW), from the 6th to the 8th of February, a fair that received over 20.000 professionals of the sector from 79 countries, ...
05 DIC 2019
The prestigious wine guide ABC 2020-awards 92 points to LaFou Els Amelers 2018, (which is the same score it was given in the guide Guia Vivir El Vino - 365 Vinos al Año 2020), and it highlights its great character and taste. In the same guide, LaFou ...
03 DIC 2019
With 91 points, LaFou de Batea 2015 was the highest-rated wine from the DO Terra Alta in the Guia Proensa 2020. The guide describes this wine as having: "great harmony in the various nuances; black and red berries, minerals, spices, ... body and nerve, ...
28 NOV 2019
On November 25, Experiencia Verema Barcelona (Barcelona Harvest Experience) was held for the seventh year running. The Maritime Museum in Barcelona hosted this wine event that gathered over 100 of the best wineries on a national and international ...
22 NOV 2019
LaFou de Batea was awarded 95 points in the the wine guide Guía de Vinos Gourmets 2020 making it the highest rated wine from the DO Terra Alta.
In 2020, this guide will publish its 35th edition. Its tasting team is made up of professionals from ...
08 NOV 2019
On November 4, the wine guide Guia de Vins de Catalunya 2020 was launched on the market. The well-established and traditional launching event took place in the Àgora Room in the Hotel Trade Center in Barcelona. Over 100 wineries from all Denominations ...
07 NOV 2019
On November 5 at Cliqk Studios in the SoHo neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York, the Catalan Tourism Board held a dinner to present Catalonia as a food and wine destination. Guests included press and influencers who were served Catalan dishes and ...
05 NOV 2019
On October 28 and 29 at the IFEMA pavilion in Madrid, a fair to celebrate Spain’s best wines for 2020 was held. Some 350 wineries presented almost 2,000 wines to around 5,000 professionals from 40 countries.
The LaFou Celler was present with ...
04 NOV 2019
LaFou Els Amelers is acclaimed as the best White Grenache from the DO Terra Alta in a Wine Competition for DO Terra Alta 2019. The winery picked up this award on Friday, 1 November, during the Gandesa Wine Festival.
The highlight of this festival ...
23 OCT 2019
LAFOU El Sender 2017 is launched; it is the seventh vintage of this wine and it is a true and pure reflection of the landscape of Terra Alta and the great richness of the Grenache variety par excellence.
This wine shows an intense red colour. The ...
25 SEPT 2019
Once again, the guild of hotels - Gremi d'Hotels de Barcelona, INCAVI and the Catalan association of DOs (denominations of origin) organized an event called “Hotels with DO”. This event received the support of Barcelona’s School of Hotel Management, ...
20 SEPT 2019
On 16th September, Sweden celebrated “Grenache Day”.
This occasion is aimed at promoting Spanish wines, as well as to highlight and present the Spanish wine sector as a modern and innovative one in which sustainability and adapting to the environment ...
19 SEPT 2019
"Harvest in Terra Alta with Ramon Roqueta at LaFou Celler". This is the name Sentits Barcelona gave to the Professional Seminar organized on 16 September at LaFou Celler.
Guests took a tour of the vineyards, took part in the harvest, prepared the ...
17 SEPT 2019
LaFou Celler organises seasonal Gourmet Food and Wine tasting sessions and the last one was held in September during the heat of the harvest season. Guests were invited to tour the vineyards and to taste and savour LaFou Els Amelers and new unfiltered ...
10 JUN 2019
On June 8, the LaFou Winery hosted a Spring Tasting event; “Degustació de Primavera”. Wine and vines were the stars of the show and it was here that the new LaFou Els Amelers vintage could be tasted in a pairing with seasonal dishes prepared ...
03 JUN 2019
The prestigious wine magazine Decanter features LaFou Els Amelers 2017 in an article by Sarah Jane Evans MW - "Explore Spain's Undiscovered Wines" - and Decanter gives this wine 90 points, which is the highest rating a Terra Alta wine has ever been ...
30 MAY 2019
“Are the wines I've had to date artificial ones? “... “Why is there an interest in classifying a wine as "natural" if it isn’t?” ... "What about healthy wines?".
Ramon Roqueta is Lafou’s owner and oenologist. In his third blog post, ...
28 MAY 2019
Just a few weeks ago I was invited to a debate on "natural" wines, a topic that is very fashionable at the moment, but also a controversial one. So, today we will talk about them.
So, are the wines I've had to date artificial ones?
No, not at all. ...
23 ABR 2019
Grenaches du Monde is an itinerary event which was held this year in its home of origin in the wine region of Roussillon (France). LaFou El Sender 2016 is a fresh red wine, with a seductive nobility and whose name comes from the word “path” (el ...
03 ABR 2019
LaFou presented its wines to professionals from the hotel and catering industry at a congress held between March 11 and April 1. This event was organized by the Denomination of Origin Terra Alta on the Costa Daurada and in Barcelona respectively. ...
25 MAR 2019
A local newspaper - Diari de Tarragona – featured LaFou Els Amelers among its gourmet recommendations on March 23. ...
12 MAR 2019
LaFou Celler attended the first edition of the Catalan Conference on Wine Communication (Comuvicat 2019). Ramon Roqueta, LaFou’s owner and oenologist, took part in a round table on "What we don’t talk about in the wine sector". During this ...
22 FEB 2019
On Saturday, March 2nd, the LaFou Winery will host its third seasonal pairing event “Cicle de Maridatges Gastronòmics de Temporada al Celler”. The winery launched this event in May last year to pair seasonal cuisine with its wines. In May, it ...
22 FEB 2019
In its March edition, the prestigious wine magazine Decanter once again rates LaFou wines in a special feature on the Terra Alta region: LaFou Els Amelers with 92 points and LaFou de Batea with 93 points.
The author, Miquel Hudin, also includes ...
18 FEB 2019
On February 14th last, the LaFou Winery, together with Tarroné de Batea Winery, was invited to take part in the programme Districte 21 (Canal 21 Tierras del Ebro) to present the winery and its wines. Joan Vaqué spoke on behalf of the LaFou Winery ...
14 FEB 2019
"It is not entirely correct to speak of native grape varieties " ... ", if you are asked where White Garnacha comes from, Terra Alta is your answer " says Ramon Roqueta, oenologist and owner of the LaFou Winery. These are just some thoughts on the Garnacha ...
14 FEB 2019
With the blog underway, I can no longer delay talking about one of my favourite subjects: the Garnacha variety which, curiously enough, I "discovered" and fell in love with by studying in France, which is why I started the LaFou project in the Terra ...