The trade show will gather 1,100 wineries and some one hundred experts in its largest edition
The best Spanish wines from heirloom vines take centre stage at Barcelona Wine Week 2025
The benchmark in quality Spanish wine, the show will be held from 3 to 5 February 2025 at the Montjuic venue of Fira Barcelona, where the spotlight will be on wines made from heirloom rootstock, an age-old heritage now given new value. Prestigious experts and winemakers will be holding tastings and talking about this recent rise and other major trends, such as the boom in white wine, and challenges such as adapting the industry to climate change.
Entitled ‘Heirloom vines, age-old heritage’ Barcelona Wine Week 2025 will be bringing together renowned experts and winemakers whose common denominator is their production of excellent wines from vineyards between 50 and nearly 300 years old. Today the industry is placing more value than ever on these heirloom vines for the superior quality of their grapes, their capacity for adaptation, and power they have to express the terroir of their place of origin.
Among the main attractions of the slate of activities scheduled for Barcelona Wine Week is the participation of winemakers such as Raúl Pérez, one of the most emblematic figures in the Spanish wine-making scene, who in 2023 earned 100 of the much sought-after Parker points with a wine from the heirloom rootstock of El Bierzo. Also on hand will be Ricard Rofes, oenologist at Scala Dei, the winery with the oldest vines in El Priorat, and the Master of Wine Fernando Mora (Bodegas Frontonio), who recovered historic vineyards in Alpartir (Zaragoza) and today yields some of the finest grenache in the world.
One of the most important tastings will be the one led by Doug Frost, one of the few experts to have simultaneously held the prestigious titles of Master of Wine and Master Sommelier; the session will also gather winemakers using pre-phylloxera rootstock, some of which are nearly 300 years old, which hark from Lanzarote (Bodegas El Grifo), Pontevedra (Bodegas Gerardo Méndez) or Valladolid (Javier Sanz Viticultores). Finally, to analyse this trend, three of the top sommeliers in the country, including Fernando Mayoral (Best Sommelier in Spain 2024) will be taking part in a group activity.
At the same time, the Wine Tasting Journey, a space hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food, will also be displaying the wealth and variety of heirloom wines and offering a self-guided tasting of over 80 labels from all over the country.
Beyond the potential and peculiarities of heirloom vines, the list of talks at BBW will address other issues such as the new forms of getting started in wine and the rise of white wines, in a session that will bring together the sommeliers from the Paco Roncero (Mª José Huertas) and Disfrutar (Rodrigo Briseño) restaurants, as well as other experts.
Other major challenges in the industry such as sustainability and adapting wineries to climate changes will be featured in specific talks.
Industry and business
Barcelona Wine Week 2025 will be gathering nearly 1,100 exhibitors in what will be the largest edition in its four-year history. The show, which will be held for the first time in the two halls of Fira Barcelona to accommodate the high level of participation, will remain focused on generating business opportunities for the exhibiting companies. To do so, it will reinforce its hosted buyers programme geared towards large importers and distributors from strategic countries for exports of Spanish wine and invite nearly 700 international buyers. It will also be inviting a thousand domestic buyers which include large distributors, specialised merchants, and the HORECA channel, the main means of distribution for Spanish wine producers.
The previous BWW, held in February 2024, brought together 952 exhibiting wineries, 73 Designations of Origin and nearly 21,000 professional visitors.
Barcelona, october 2024
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