PENEDÈS. HISTory AND TRADITIon

The DO Penedès is the denomination of origin with more history and tradition of Catalonia, located only 40 km from Barcelona. Due to its geographical location, it gives wines influenced by the sea breezes that arrive from the Garraf coastline and extend to the pre-coastal mountain range. Inheritance of centuries of wine tradition, the DO Penedès is facing the future as a necessary reference in Catalonia.

The singularity of Penedès has given rise to a zoning that allows to explain and better understand its wines. There are three different areas: the Penedès Superior, Penedès Marítim and Penedès Central. The existence of small microclimates offers a variety of wines: thousand different flavors, fragances, bodies and structures that are the result of the climatic and landscape differences and the richness and variety of soils that make up the Penedès. From the blue of the sea that surrounds the vineyards of the Penedès marítim to the green of the mountains or the plains of the Penedès Superior and the Penedès Central, all the colors are distilled in balanced and harmonious whites, with xarel·lo as badge variety, and elegant and intense blacks