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Laureano Serres Everyone seems to have a story about Laureano Serres and the stories tend to converge in a few places: his frenetic energy, his deep loyalty to friends and family, his extreme generosity, and his gargantuan appetite for wine. But Laureano’s affable manners conceal a profound influence natural wine the natural wine movement, making his revolutionary ideas seem ordinary, even provincial. In the late 1990s, as winemakers all over Catalonia scrambled to obtain flattering reviews from critics who favored a generic international style, Laureano turned decidedly in the other direction, opening the path for a new generation of Catalan natural winemakers. A former computer programmer, Laureano returned in 1996 from Madrid to his hometown of Pinell de Brai in the Terra Alta region Southwest of Tarragona. The following year, he became president of the grandiose Catedral del Vi, a functioning wine cooperative, designed by students of Gaudi prior to the Spanish civil war as a monume