{"id":4790,"date":"2016-07-14T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T13:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gramona.com\/en\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:35:16","slug":"that-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gramona.com\/en\/that-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"That guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1439.36px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>For years That Guide used to rate Gramona as being among the best sparkling, but never <em>the<\/em> <em>best<\/em>. The rule of the boss and taster at \u2018That Guide\u2019 was that sparkling wine of Pened\u00e8s had to be young, fresh and fruity. No way could they attempt the exploit of long ageing like that of the iconic champagnes of France.<\/p>\n<p>That Guide was the most recognized in Spain and those running it at the time did not attend our first vertical tasting by Gramona in Madrid, at which we shared our theory of Pened\u00e8s sparkling ability to be a very fine wine. That was back in spring 2008. The presentation and tasting of various vintages of our Celler Batlle and III Lustros were a great success.<\/p>\n<p>We were however needled by That Guide, so we called them up the following day. They agreed to find a slot for us in their busy diary and we met informally in their offices in Madrid. We had turned up with two bottles of our wines: a Celler Batlle from the 1997 vintage and another from the 1998. \u2018Mr Pe\u00f1\u00edn\u2019 received us and quickly asked his team to set up a blind tasting with our bottles and some <em>champagne<\/em> that they happened to have in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>Our host listened to our thesis on why a Pened\u00e8s sparkling could be capable of evolving over many years to become excellent. He heard us out, but it was the blind tasting that sealed it. \u2018Mr. Taster and his tasting team preferred our Gramonas\u2019 to the top-of- the-range <em>champagnes,<\/em> which unbeknownst to us, we had just tasted.<\/p>\n<p>The following year, That Guide lauded us for the first time<em>,<\/em> \u2018With a 10 year old sparkling wine, Gramona attains the expression of the best <em>champagnes\u2019. <\/em>The trade press in Spain began to acknowledge the potential of our wines, which we refer to as <strong>\u2018the paradigm shift\u2019<\/strong>. Since that meeting, the tasting teams at That Guide have changed and its management too. However, we remain the most highly rated sparkling in the guide, a break with the rule.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xavier Gramona<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>that guide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"that guide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gramona.com\/en\/that-guide\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"that guide\" \/>\n<meta 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