Gelida Winery: “Would you like to drink a bottle of wine made the year you were born?”

The Gelida Winery is 130 years old. Toni Falgueras tells me this as soon as I enter. Today I asked him to show me the jewel in the crown of the Gelida Winery in Barcelona (calle Vallespir, 65), a jewel that those of us who go in to buy a bottle of wine in a hurry might not know about. We start with the stairs that go down to the basement, which is located in the middle of the first room of the shop. There are wines from a hundred vintages; they are the wines that people ask for when they want to drink the year they were born, or that they buy as gifts, because perhaps there is no more unusual birthday gift than a wine that is as old as we are.
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