The wines of Laureano Serres are the epitome of of natural wines. He owns a small (4 ha.) property in Tarragona under the label Mendall. Benoît Vallée, the owner of a small wine shop in Barcelona that promotes traditional and natural French and Spanish wines, recently wrote, “[Serres’] white wines are for me a concentration of Spain. In 2002, he forgot to put sulfite in one of his tanks. First, he was able to see for himself that it’s possible to make wine without sulfites; second, he realized that he preferred his wine like that. And since that year, he decided courageously to make wine without sulfite even if he possesses really limited means of wine making.”
A collaboration between Joan Ramón Escoda, of Celler Escoda Sanahuja [D.O. Conca de Barberà], and Laureano Serres. In this case, it is a white wine, half Chenin Blanc from Joan Ramón and half Garnacha Blanca from my vineyards in Terra Alta. The cépage was made in December 2010, and the wine was placed in a 400-liter amphora, where it developed flor for a few months. It was bottled bottled in June 2011.