Last May 13, a jury composed of a hundred international experts selected the best wines made with the Grenache grape at the Aéro Club de France (Paris, 16º) for the twelfth edition of the Grenache International Awards du Monde. After New York last year, the French capital celebrated its big Grenache festival this year. And in it, the Puresa Garnatxa Blanca of the Cooperativa de Gandesa has been awarded with a double gold medal. Puresa Garnatxa Blanca is a single-varietal wine, aged, made with specially selected grapes from vines over 50 years old. Its fermentation has been controlled in French oak casks for approximately 20 days at 16-18 °C and then aged on lees for around 5-6 months using batonage.

Over the years, Grenache has become a fashionable variety that has conquered professionals and consumers all over the world. This scale in Paris will constitute a luxury platform to highlight the exceptional wines made from this emblematic grape variety", explains Fabrice Rieu, president of the competition.

With 163,000 hectares of vines, Garnacha is the seventh most planted grape variety in the world. It is the emblematic variety of the Mediterranean countries, mainly Spain and France, which together account for almost 90% of the world's planted area. Spain, France and Italy are the three main producing countries, and represent the flag of Europe, but Grenache is very popular all over the world: North and South Africa, Australia, North and South America, Croatia, Greece, Lebanon, etc.

Created in 2013 by the Interprofessional Council of Roussillon Wines (CIVR) of Perpignan, Grenaches du Monde has become a traveling competition, with its first edition relocated to Aragon (Camp de Borja in 2016), then to Sardinia (2017) and Catalonia (Terra Alta, 2018). The Competition returned to Perpignan in 2019, and the following year it set off again for Montpellier in collaboration with Vins de Pays d'Oc, the world's leading producer of Grenache rosé wines. In 2021, the Competition is divided into 4 tastings in 4 Grenache capitals: Cebreros in Spain, Châteauneuf du Pape and Perpignan in France, and Ascoli Piceno in Italy. In 2022, the competition will come to Navarre before facing the challenge of celebrating its first edition outside Europe, in New York in June 2023. The jury, composed of 80 professionals (all Americans for the first time: distributors , sommeliers, importers, journalists and influencers) has evaluated more than 800 wines from 4 different countries (France, Spain, Italy and the United States) and has awarded 286 medals ("Double Gold", "Gold" and "Silver") .