The secrets from the Chef & Sommelier

The Gramona history started more than 125 years ago and now it is the fifth generation who works for this famous house of wines. The grapes for the Gramona wines all come from own land of 150 hectares mainly in the La Plana, Mas Escorpi, El Serralet and La Solana sites with the main grapes to be Xarello, chardonnay, Pinot noir and Macabeo. The experimental vineyards of other known grape variety makes exiting wines with a modern twist. The Cava Argent is made of chardonnay grapes and aged for 34 months shows delicate expression of the grape with long lasting taste. III Lustros made of Xarello and Macabeo and aged for at least five years in the cellar with real cork is a true elegance and harmony in the bottle with great complexity and lingering taste. The best wine is the Celler Batlle that have been aged for seven years on cork and contains the best grapes of Xarello and Macabeo, this wine is fantastic and shows nice creamy texture with loads of white peach, apricots

Culinary Olympics 2012 Results NATIONAL TEAM Rank Nation ABC Cold Platters Medal R Hot Kitchen Medal Total points 1 Sweden 95,08 Gold 94,32 Gold 94,70 2 Norway 89,3 Silver 93,14 Gold 91,22 3 Germany 87,45 Silver 91,2 Gold 89,33 4 Canada 85,49 Silver 92,8 Gold 89,15 5 Switzerland 88,01 Silver 87,37 Silver 87,69 6 USA 89,44 Silver 85,84 Silver 87,64 7 Finland 86,73 Silver 87,4 Silver 87,07 8 The Netherlands 81,97 Silver 84,57 Silver 83,27 9 Australia 82,57 Silver 83,85 Silver 83,21 10 Japan 85,97 Silver 79,39 Bronze 82,68 11 Hong Kong 82,44 Silver 81,25 Silver 81,85 12 Denmark 76,58 Bronze 86,38 Silver 81,48 13 South Korea 85,4 Silver 76,99 Bronze 81,20 14 Malaysia 82,69 Silver 79,1 Bronze 80,90 15 South Africa 76,05 Bronze 85,47 Silver 80,76 16 England 77,55 Bronze 83,65 Silver 80,60 17 Wales 78,88 Bronze 82,2 Silver 80,54 18 Czech Republic 79,64 Bronze 80,94 Silver 80,29 19 Italy 81,86 Silver 78,17 Bronze 80,02 20 Scotland 77,73 Bronze 81,2 Silver 79,47 2

To visit Spain and especially Sant Sadurni d`Anoia is always nice and very rewarding. One of the great producers are Cava Recaredo and the great winemaker Ton Mata Moliner who is passionate about the product that he makes. Recaredo is all Biodynamic and makes only cavas without dosage, all bone dry that shows great complexity and depth from the terroir. Brut nature and brut de brut are all amazing wines that is some of the best produced cavas and you can buy them online at   http://www.invinitum.com/product.html/cava-recaredo-brut-d-brut-2003-gran-reserva-brut-nature?category_id=9 An great pleasure was also to meet his father who have so much history to tell and who is responsible for most of the plantings they use right now and also taste some barrel samples of Xarello that will be used for some experiments. Ton is the third generation of this house that was started by his grandfather in 1924 and who was a well known football player in the team Espaniol but eve

Everybody knows how much passion and dedication I have for Sherry wines and I take every opportunity to teach people of Sherry. I hade some 25 people at DUÅ in Umeå fore some hours explaining the greatness of Sherry and especially the Food and Sherry combinations that are unbeatable. With all the goodies from Work (Gastro-Import) we did a great night and everybody was amazed of how well this wine pairs with different kind of food. I just love it and so would you, just give it a try.   //D