Communicator and sommelier Meritxell Falgueras (Barcelona, 1981) grew up among wines, bottles, and labels: “I remember my grandmother, my mother, my father, everyone working in the shop and me doing my homework behind the boxes”. Her first job was also at the family business, the Celler de Gelida, in Sants: “During the summers, with my brother, we had to wrap bottles so that the old labels, from before the war, would not get damaged”.

Koufonísia is the Greek island where Meritxell Falgueras, sommelier and communicator, finished her latest book, Women of wine, which will be published in October. To begin with, she doesn't particularly like islands; she prefers to be connected. The feeling of being physically isolated stresses her out. She also lived alone among vineyards in Italy for a long time and finds it difficult to return to nature: "I suffer from hyperactivity; I'm overwhelmed by lack of movement. I'm a city person, very social, surrounded by people in my comfort zone, but summers are also a good time to move forward with what you have pending." Perhaps that's why she has such fond memories of last summer, two weeks with her partner, the journalist and writer Daniel Vázquez Sallés, on an island where barely 400 people live. Everything went at a different pace; they traveled on foot and dedicated time to themselves, to writing, reading, and enjoying themselves. Exceptionally, they had time to be alone; she coincided with the fact that those days Meritxell's children were with their father: they were the only days they were away, on vacation.