Male, over 35, and with an average income level. This is the standard wine consumer profile in Spain, according to a study from EAE School of Business that analyzes wine consumer types at international, national, and regional level. Beyond the headline and purely sociodemographic and socioeconomic profiles, there are lots of interesting aspects related to …
You can’t escape it. It’s that time of year when everything – TV, social media, your e-mail, and even supermarket offers – revolves around the day devoted to lovers. Even this post is about Valentine’s Day. Although at first it might seem like it’s a holiday that has its fair share of critics, recent …
La Força d’un destí (“The Power of Destiny”), Martí Gironell’s novel, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize and inspired by the life of Jean Leon, the winery’s founder, is in bookstores now. We talked to the author to find out what’s behind the book’s more than 300 pages. This is your eighth book, and it’s …
Josep and his father made the best coques de sucre in the entire county. [A coca de sucre, coques in plural, is a sugar-topped flatbread popular in Catalonia.] Everybody said so. They left an impression, even on Jean Leon. “In the summer, when he came to Penedès, he’d stop by the bakery every day to …
As restaurants go, Can Boqueta is really authentic. The location alone—in Sóller’s historical town center on one of its most iconic streets—makes it special. It is a cozy traditional Mallorcan townhouse with elegant contemporary décor that preserves the original architecture of the building. A lovely quiet interior courtyard with great views of the Sóller mountains …
Mauricio Wiesenthal is a writer, winemaker, photographer… and friend of Jean Leon. We met him at La Vinoteca Torres so he could tell us about how they met, why they became friends, and the memories he has of Jean. He shows up impeccable, elegant, extremely polite, and ready to tell us everything we wanted to …
The latest novel by journalist and writer Martí Gironell is based on the life of Jean Leon, the fictionalized character (and the real person). La força d’un destí (The Power of Destiny) won the Ramon Llull 2018 prize for best novel. It is the natural continuation of a tradition that has made wine culture a …
A native of Seville by birth; a native of the Penedès by blood. Joan Baptista Carrión is Jean Leon’s nephew. His father—Ceferino Carrión’s brother—spent over 14 years working at the winery. We talked to Joan Baptista so he could tell us what his “American uncle” was like and what he thinks of the legacy Jean …
Jean A. Leon knew his father really well. While he was visiting Catalonia, we had the pleasure of having lunch together with him in our visitor center. Between the vineyards that his father founded in 1963, we remembered him and the legacy he left. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you …
José Monje knew Jean Leon: They got to know each other a short time after Monje was appointed maître d’ of the restaurant Via Veneto. They understood one another and Leon even ended up telling Monje some stories and secrets that have now become obsolete. The owner of one of Barcelona’s most exclusive restaurants reveals …
Jean Leon, the man from the myth that became a legend.
