The Wine’s Guide 2023 issued by ABC Spanish newspaper highlighted three wines from Alta Alella amongst its recommendations of the year. Pilar Cavero, sommelier and wine critic, has tasted and reviewed two sparkling wines from Pujol-Busquets family (Alta Alella 10 2010 and Alta Alella MIRGIN EXEO Paraje Calificado Vallcirera 2016), and a white wine (Alta Alella Cau d’en Genís 2021).

Alta Alella 10 2010: “(…) Mireia and Josep Maria Pujol-Busquets have thought big to produce this complex and mature cava, vibrant and fruity, an example that long ageing is the way forward for the great Spanish sparkling wines“.

Alta Alella MIRGIN EXEO Paraje Calificado Vallcirera 2016: “(…) Elegant, full of fruit and pastry notes, it is honest and direct, fresh and gentle“.

Alta Alella Cau d’en Genís 2021: “(…) Fennel and salinity envelop an honest white wine, the result of a job well done“.

The digital magazine Beber Magazine has chosen Alta Alella 10 2012 among the wine recommendations to celebrate this Christmas. In the words of Cira López, Alta Alella 10 is “the great bet” to accompany the Christmas menu. “A cava full of nuances and personality; fresh, elegant, complex and very different from what people usually think a cava is”.

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Glorian Ruoka&viini, a well-known lifestyle magazine in Finland, has selected AUS Tallarol, an organic wine without added sulfites produced by Celler de les Aus, as the best natural wine of 2022.

AUS Tallarol is made with the Pansa Blanca variety, indigenous to the Alella region, and fermented in concrete egg based on clay (Oeuf de Beaune), with the aim to enhance the terroir’s character, increase the wine’s aromatic richness and volume on the palate.

“On the rich palate of Alta Alella’s Catalonian natural wine one can find appley fruitiness, lemon, grapefruit and herbal spiciness. Deliciously acidic white wine fits well with marinated olives, goat’s cheese and small savoury bites, and also with baked potato served with for example mushrooms, butter and cured salmon.” – Glorian Magazine

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The owner of Alta Alella, Mireia Pujol-Busquets, talks about her beginnings in wine world, the value that vineyards give to the environment and misconceptions about wine, among others, in an interview by The Femme Vine. This web page aims to connect wine lovers with women winemakers.

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“Absolutely lovely” – Samantha Cole-Johnson

Alta Alella MIRGIN Gran Reserva has been highlighted as Wine of the week by Samantha Cole-Johnson at JanisRobinson.com. From this cava, that was given a score of 17, Cole-Johnson highlights: “Lemon colour. Salty bread-dough aroma. Fine mousse, zesty acidity. Lemon peel, lime, white grapefruit with its corresponding pithiness, raw sweet almond, juicy green apple, chalk, a slight rubber aroma (not at all in a bad way, in a characteristically Cava way). The aromas are quite fresh and layered with more fruit (rather than secondary, evolved character) than the other Cavas. Plenty of minerality though. Persistent finish with some bread-dough autolytic quality. Absolutely lovely.”

The last time that a Cava was chosen wine of the week was a decade ago.

Alta Alella 10 · Gran Reserva 2010, the collectible cava made with a “Grand Vin” philosophy from the Pujol-Busquets family, has been selected as “enchanting  sparkling wine” by Pilar Molestina and featured in Gentleman magazine, March edition.

“This is a cava with a stature and elegance designed with great ageing capacity due to its winemaking philosophy and its varietal characteristics and origin (Paraje Calificado and sauló soil). After ten years of waiting, this elegant wine emerges with freshness as one of its outstanding characteristics. Wide, fresh, evocative and with a certain sensation of structure and great persistence”.

Translation from the original text by Pilar Molestina in Spanish – Gentleman Magazine (March 2022), Gastronomy section