Siris Capital · Wine Tasting Casa Batlló

The chosen venue was Casa Batlló on Passeig de Gràcia. A building by Antoni Gaudí, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of the most visited pieces of Catalan Modernisme, and a cultural asset that any American investor recognises before landing. The editorial opportunity was immediate. So was the operational difficulty.

A UNESCO heritage venue imposes restrictions that admit no interpretation. Floor load capacity, room temperature, anchorage points, the building's architectural lighting regime, catering staff flow patterns, and the timetable of use compatible with the museum's daytime operations are boundary conditions that are not negotiated. Any proposal for scenography, technical assembly, or room service is evaluated first against those restrictions.

The editorial challenge added another layer. A premium wine tasting inside Gaudí competes with the building itself for the guest's attention. If the catering is executed as a standard company gala dinner, the venue swallows the evening and the tasting goes unnoticed. If it is executed as a standalone editorial piece, the building is relegated to background. The balance was demanding: make the tasting as elevated as Gaudí, and ensure Gaudí did not eclipse the tasting.

Bacus structured the evening as a single continuous narrative divided into courses, in which the wine tasting articulated the rhythm of the night while the venue functioned as a frame. The structure began with a ceremonial arrival along the Passeig de Gràcia façade, reception on the building's main floor, a paired tasting in successive courses coordinated with the kitchen service, and an extended after-dinner in one of the singular spaces of the building. Closed attendance of international guests, seated format, individual attention per table.

The wine selection was built on a reading of the guest. North American financial profile, a palate accustomed to international references, an expectation of discovery. The list combined prestigious Spanish denominación de origen references with European wines that would converse with each course of the menu and allow the sommelier to build the evening's narrative as a conversation, not a catalogue. Each course had its editorial anchor: why this wine, why this dish, why this order.

Bacus signed the overall artistic direction, integrating sommelier team, kitchen, room service, complementary architectural lighting of the salon, and scene direction on the day. The building was worked without covering anything. No additional scenography, no visible technical structure, no projection onto stone. The intervention concentrated where the guest's eye rested up close: the table, the glass, the plate, the conversation with the sommelier.

The arrival was designed as a ceremonial opening. Reception at the façade, ascent via the building's interior staircase, first welcome space with an opening glass and a direct view of the architectural elements for which the building is recognised worldwide. The international financial guest, accustomed to galas in hotels and conventional ballrooms, registers immediately that the evening is being played in a different venue category.

The move to the tasting happened with the room already set — formal table, glasses aligned, sommelier in position. The first course opened the night's conversation. From that point, the pace was set by the coordination between kitchen, room, and sommelier. Each dish arrived accompanied by the note for the wine crossing it. Table conversation revolved around what was being drunk, not around external noise. And the building's architecture remained in the background, present without imposing — a constant reminder of the city in which the fund had decided to convene its circle.

The after-dinner extended inside the building itself. Guests closed the evening with the feeling of having been received in a space not rented out for any dinner, attended by a service that knew every reference on the list, and participants in a conversation the fund had built specifically for that night.

The production was recognised by the Eventoplus jury with a Bronze award in the Best Catering Application category. The recognition validates what the client had contracted: a company gala dinner in Barcelona where catering is not support but editorial content, executed within Casa Batlló as the exclusive venue with operational discipline compatible with the restrictions of a UNESCO heritage site.

The Eventoplus Awards are the leading professional recognition in the Spanish corporate event industry and function as a market reference for demanding B2B clients. An Eventoplus catering award in this category documents in verifiable terms the level at which Bacus operates the gastronomic piece within a corporate event at a heritage venue. The relationship with Siris closed with the evening producing the effect the fund had requested: a night its international circle could recount in Manhattan.