Historia
Can Nadal de la Boadella was founded in the early 16th century. The document signed by the notary Francesch Berthomeu in 1510 certifies the ownership of the estate by Pere Nadal, located in the municipality of Torrelavit. According to historical documents, Nadal estate has passed from father to son, faithful to the Catalan tradition of the family heir. The vineyards have been cultivated and wine has been made ever since, without any cease.
Ramon Nadal Giró
He was born in 1903, precisely at the time when vineyards were being replanted in Alt Penedès region, after the phylloxera plague had happened. At that time, the cellar was a distillery where the wine was distilled to produce alcohol. During the Spanish Civil War, a part of the estate was expropriated to construct an airfield. At that time, the entrepreneurial spirit of Ramon Nadal Giró led him to France and to La Mancha, where he produced mistelles using the alcohol of the estate.
With renewed ideas and the profits gained from the commercialization of mistelles, he started a big transformation in the cellar. In 1941, he repossessed the vineyards that the army had used as an airfield during the war, and he built, twenty metres below the ground, the foundational cellar, which still nowadays looks after the most appreciated products of the winery.
The philosophy and vision of Ramon Nadal Giró has guided us over the years to maintain the standards and level of quality of our sparkling wines and white wines. As a tribute to him, the RNG was born, a sparkling wine named after him. In fact, RNG20 is the most iconic corpinnat of our range, a limited edition of 1,049 magnum bottles of 1997 harvest, which will undoubtedly exceed an average of 25 years of aging in bottle once all of them have been commercialised, quite a record in Spain.
Sparkling and white wines
After the transformation driven by Ramon Nadal Giró at the end of the Spanish Civil War, the family business is reoriented from the distillery to the production of sparkling wines. As a result of this evolution, the first bottle of Nadal Brut is born in 1943.
From then on, Nadal winery has been producing great long aged sparkling wines following the artisanal rituals of the traditional or champenoise method. Since 1998, with the third generation of the family in charge of the winery, Nadal started to produce white wines. Firstly dry xarel·lo wines and, afterwards, the first sweet wine from natural Botrytis made in Spain, of macabeu variety.