Wine is conquering the best Barcelona hotels. Throughout this year, at the luxurious Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Barcelona, they have programmed up to nine wine experiences with “carefully selected” wineries that pair their wines with a tasting menu prepared in one of their restaurants: Moments, Blanc or Terrat. Representatives of the wineries together with Mandarin Oriental's head sommelier, Cristian Sánchez, will explain the pairing and the wines chosen for each dinner, which are offered between 160 and 280 euros per diner.
The second edition of its Wine Dinners opens next Wednesday, February 7, with Bodega López de Heredia Viña Tondonia and the presence of María José López de Heredia, CEO and great-granddaughter of the founder of this Riojan winery, and her husband and commercial director, José Luis Ripa. In March it will be the turn of Alma Carraovejas with Pedro Ruiz Aragoneses, in April the Californian winery Father John, in May Mas d'en Gil del Priorat with Marta Rovira, in June the selected winery is Can Ràfols dels Caus from the DO Penedès , in July it will be Attis Bodega y Vineyards from the Rías Baixas DO, in October it will be Abadal from the Pla de Bages DO with Ramon Roqueta and the Wine Dinners will close in November from Maison Chapoutier del Rhône.
And coinciding with Barcelona Wine Week (BWW), the Hotel Wine Fest debuts, which is announced as “the first festival that fuses wine excellence and hotel luxury.” Until February 7, it brings together five appellations of origin (Cava, Penedès, Jumilla, Yecla and Bullas) pairing their wines with tapas and dishes at the hotels El Palace Barcelona, Almanac Barcelona, Cotton House, Majestic Hotel
