Once upon a time the Heus*1 mars 2011
As any other tale, Heus is the beginning; it is the starting point where great number of stories comes up. From the illustrator’s hand Marta Altés, this serial of three stories bring into life the youngest wines of La Vinyeta, the Heus, with a fresh and easy going language. You can see the full short story of ‘The desperate princess’, ‘The enchanted prince’ and “The lawless dragon” click here. Moreover, she also creates the illustrations for the Punt i apart wine labelling.
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Marta Altés studied at Eina School of Art & Design where, once she was graduated in Graphic Design; se specialized herself doing a MA of Creative Illustration. She worked for Cha Chá and other advertising agencies. She currently is doing a MA Illustration in Cambridge. For more information please click here.
Llavors* wine got the Laus award for its labelling1 mars 2011
On the past edition of the Laus 09 award Lluís Serra Pla and La Vinyeta got the prestigious award Golden Laus for the labelling of the Llavors wine, on the category of ‘Packaging and Labelling Design’. This award boosts the image of the winery. Since then, we can find many different articles that refers to our wines in some magazines and graphic design books as the French publication Étapes, magazines as On Diseño and Chois Gallery, books as Wine plus and Pack pack or The die line website.
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Lluís Serra Pla, Josep’s brother –enologist and owner of La Vinyeta–, he studied graphic design at Eina School of Art & Design. While he was a student he was awarded with Student Laus Award, subsequently for Fad Incubator. He has worked for different studios as Bis, Summa or 40 Gurús. He currently lives in Alt Empordà where he is doing the graphic image of La Vinyeta apart from his own projects. For further information please click here.
*lavinyeta and Pep Nogué. Grenache and apple. A good mistela1 septembre 2010
If we put together eager and creative mind to a solid base of knowledge and severity, the result can be surprising. ÉS Poma is a mistela made from Grenache of l’Empordà and apple juice of Girona. Pep Nogué and La Vinyeta, apple and Grenache, Girona and l’Empordà. Like two jigsaw pieces this is a mistela of fusions. Apple in nose, Grenache in mouth. Could you imagine an innovative product with more links to the land?
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Pep Nogué is described as gastronomy passionate, great chef, tireless theoretician and gastronomic journalist, restless cook without restaurant… He studied at the School of Hospitality & Catering of Girona and he was working at El Celler de Can Roca for thirteen years. He has published the books ‘The best cuisine for the summer” and ‘Eat for 1 Euro”, he does gastronomy TV shows, also collaborates with magazines and radio shows and is the creator of Keks beer. In short, Pep Nogué is a gourmet of La Garrotxa.
