Mendall
Laureano Serres,
He is a true legend on the Catalan wine scene. A true pioneer of Spanish natural wine, he has played an influential role in inspiring many other producers in the area to return to their winemaking roots. He worked as a programmer in Madrid, but soon decided that a change of life was necessary, so he returned to his home town, Pinell de Brai in Catalonia, to manage the local winegrowers' cooperative. A couple of years later he set up on his own, bottling wine under the Mendall label from the 1999 vintage. The decision to work organically came early on and since 2002, after forgetting to add sulphur dioxide to his wines and enjoying the result, he has never gone back.