Some days begin marked on the calendar and end etched into our memories. The 2026 Harvest Festival was one of them.
The third edition of our Harvest Festival once again turned the winery into a meeting place centered around what matters most to us: wine, people, the land and everything that happens when a harvest is celebrated with the doors open.
There were people from Maluenda.
There were wine professionals.
There were international guests.
There was food.
There was music.
There was art.
There was grape stomping.
And this year, there was something else that made us feel even more excited: 9,750 euros raised for Viu Autisme.
The collaboration with Viu Autisme centered around a unique Garnacha barrel.
During the morning, more than fifty international wine professionals took part in a blind tasting to select the wine that would later be auctioned at the gala dinner.
A Belgian buyer connected to the wine industry placed the winning bid: 9,750 euros, an amount that will go entirely to Viu Autisme and the projects it develops with people on the autism spectrum and their families.
Stomping for a cause
The charitable side of the event was also present in the winery square and became part of the celebration through the grape-stomping activity, which this year we named ‘Stomping for a cause’.
Employees of Raíces Ibéricas, residents of Maluenda, content creators, representatives of Viu Autisme and wine professionals from different countries took part.
Ireland, this edition’s guest country, also joined in, stomped grapes and won.
We don’t know whether they trained in secret.
We don’t know whether an Irish grape-stomping school exists.
We’re ruling nothing out.
What we do know is that this moment once again showed something we love about this festival: when the harvest is shared, good things happen.
Maluenda, wine and one more mural in the landscape
The Harvest Festival also once again added urban art to the winery landscape.
This year we unveiled the new mural by Julián Martínez ‘Letsornot’, winner of the III Raíces Ibéricas Urban Art Competition.
His work joins the pieces created in previous years and continues to shape a project that matters greatly to us: bringing contemporary creativity closer to rural surroundings.
Maluenda has become a diverse canvas. And we love it.
Wine, food and Copacabana
Throughout the afternoon, the nearly one thousand attendees were able to taste wines from the different Raíces Ibéricas collections and enjoy a variety of culinary offerings.
This is worth saying clearly: you come to a Harvest Festival to celebrate, of course, but you also come to drink well and eat properly. After all, we’re in Aragón!
The grand finale came courtesy of Copacabana, with an indie-pop concert that accompanied the final stretch of the afternoon and got us all dancing and singing as if there were no tomorrow.
A festival that grows without losing its roots
After three editions, the Harvest Festival continues to grow as a celebration rooted in the region while remaining open to the outside world.
That combination represents us.
Local people and international professionals sharing the same space.
Grape stomping and a technical tasting.
Wine in a glass and wine in a barrel.
Live music and urban art.
A traditional community celebration and a charitable initiative with a lasting impact.
All of that fits in Maluenda.
And all of that is part of how we understand the harvest: a living moment shared by everyone.