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    23:03 PM
  • Wine average?

    78 Tb
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    253

History

1894, Mr. Narcís Mascaró Marcé was born in 1894 in a business family dedicated to wine tradin¡g. He was the middle of the five children of Mr. Antoni Mascaró Castellet and Mrs. Josefa Marcé Miret.

1919, He was studying in Switzerland with his older brother, Josep, a wine merchant in Lausanne, when his father died in 1919 and he decided to return to Vilafranca del Penedès, his hometown. The family business became Mascaró Widow & Sons, as it ...

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Vineyards

The Mascaró spirits, cavas and wines are borned in Penedès region, Spain, in “Mas Miquel” and “El Castell” estates, where we work the land for three generations. The “Mas Miquel” estate is located in Aiguamúrcia (Alt Camp) and it has 35 hectares under vine cultivation, registered at D.O. Penedès and D.O. Cava. The estate, which has a total of 170 hectares, is adjacent to the Monastery of the Holy Cross and has been dedicated to growing grapes ...

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Winemaking

The estate “Mas Miquel”, registered at D.O. Cava, is the origin of the Mascaró Reserva and Grand Reserva cava. There, one of the highest areas of the Penedès region we have different grape varieties which we use to produce our cavas: Parellada, Macabeo, Chardonnay, Grenache and Xarel.lo.

 

Harvesting is manual at Mascaró and the transport to the cellar is made in small boxes to preserve the maximum quality of the fruit, that we collect i...

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Inside information

A Mascaróis, according to the Dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, a “fantastic face disforme or used as adornment in certain works of architecture’. The Mascaró as a decorative architectural ornament has been used throughout history but is mainly related to the neoclassic period. If you walk around our cities you will be able to find many of them embellished buildings and accompanying our daily life. They are usually crown...

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