RAVENTÓS I BLANC DID NOT ACCEPT THE INVITATION TO BE A CORPINNAT FOUNDING PARTNER RAVENTÓS I BLANC BELIEVE IN THE FRENCH MODEL OF THE RIGOROUS AOC’S
At the beginning of the year, two winemakers who represent two of the founding wineries of
Corpinnat, and in the name of said association, invited Raventós i Blanc to become a founding member.
(Corpinnat is a collective European Union Brand created for some wineries inside the DO CAVA: Nada...
The Raventós i Blanc estate, 90 hectares of woodland and vineyards in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, has belonged to the Raventós family since 1497, and been passed on intact from generation to generation up to the present day. In 1872 Josep Raventós Fatjó made the first sparkling wine second fermentation in the bottle with grapes from our estate. Since then, every generation has dedicated itself to vine growing and to making fine sparkling wines. A un...
In 1888, Manuel Raventós Doménech creates a sparkling wine from Penedés with the three native varieties: Xarel·lo, Macabeu and Parellada. When we created CAVA in 1872, we dreamed of a World Class sparkling wine. This is why Josep Raventós Fatjó innovated with Xarel.lo from the same vineyard where "de la Finca" comes from to this day. He understood the great potential of this grape, the mineral structure of our oldest soils and, most importantl...
Our philosophy is one of maximum care for the balance of each plot and our obsession is to understand this balance in order to get the finest expression from each. There are factors, such as the clone of the grape variety or the rootstock (161-49, SO4, 41B and so on) which are decided once and for all at the time of planting but there are others such as pruning (number of buds), types of "green" work (disbudding, removing leaves and shoots, ti...
Our estate has its geological origins in the late tertiary (Miocene) and early quaternary periods, and is calcareous in nature. How and when the sediments were deposited and subsequent tectonic shifts have shaped our landscape. In the Miocene period we lay beneath a shallow sea which exercised little pressure. From this period we have different types of soils: clay over the
material known locally as galera (compact clays with a polyhedral s...
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