Game in Penedes

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Fruity

Single-vineyard 100 percent Pinot Noir Cava de Paraje Calificado vinified as a Blanc de Noirs. Wild-strawberry and rose-petal aromatics with creamy lees depth from over 60 months in bottle.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

Single-vineyard mono-varietal Cabernet Franc from Pardas. Long ageing, structured, built for the cellar.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

Single-plot Merlot from fossil-rich Cretaceous limestone at Massis del Garraf. The estate's serious red ageable wine.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Xarel-lo-Macabeo Brut Corpinnat aged 110 months on lees and sealed with natural cork during the tirage. Candied fruit, butter and toast over fine lees, dry nuts and wild herbs.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Organic single-variety Pinot Noir from Albet i Noya. Cool-climate Penedes red expression.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Indigenous-trio Gran Reserva Brut Nature aged 70-plus months on lees in the Mestres palace cellar on the Sant Sadurni town-hall square. Dried fruit, honey and creamy lees over saline minerality.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Indigenous-trio Gran Reserva Brut Nature with the Cupada library releases over 48 months on lees. Dried fruit, toasted almond and saline minerality from a 5-hectare hand-farmed estate.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Indigenous-trio Gran Reserva Brut Nature aged 42 months on lees from the 70-hectare Finca Nadal de la Boadella organic estate. Ripe apple, lemon and toasted bread over dried-fruit lees depth.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant

Single-estate Cab-Merlot-Sumoll blend from the Mas Vilella hill plot of Jane Ventura.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury

Mono-varietal Sumoll from Heretat Mont-Rubi, the cellar that revived the indigenous Penedes red. High-altitude single-vineyard.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Elegant

Estate Bordeaux-style red from fossil-rich Massis del Garraf limestone. Garrigue-herb and graphite-mineral expression of the terroir.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant

Cabernet Sauvignon and Tempranillo blend aged long in oak. Penedes everyday reference Reserva. Dark fruit, cedar and savoury herb.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Festive

Indigenous-trio Brut Nature Reserva from the six-pointed-star Rovellats cellar. Fresh apple, citrus and biscuit aromatics over an elegant mouthfeel with balanced structure and 24 months on lees.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury

Mono-varietal Sumoll from organic Mas Candi. Part of the grower partnership's indigenous-grape revival range.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Single-vineyard Merlot-led Bordeaux blend from Pares Balta. Named for co-winemaker Maria Elena Jimenez.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

Single-vineyard 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon from the 29-hectare Mas La Plana plot at Finca El Maset planted in the early 1970s. Bordeaux-style barrique ageing on Penedes limestone.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Biodynamic Pinot Noir from Mas Muntanyans, the modern Pinord estate cellar with experimental vessels.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury

Garnacha-Sumoll-Carinyena blend from Mont-Rubi's high-altitude Font-Rubi vineyards. Mediterranean herb-driven Penedes red.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Blend of indigenous Montonega (a regional heritage white) with Xarel-lo and Macabeu, aged minimum 60 months on lees. Ripe white fruit, honey and brioche over dried pineapple, butterscotch and chalky minerality.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Indigenous-trio Brut Nature Reserva aged 40 months on lees. Ripe yellow fruit, dried fruit and lees toast over a fresh, balanced palate with creamy aftertaste.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Bordeaux-style blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc from the Finca Les Arnes parcel on Silurian slate soils. Long ageing in French oak.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury

Cab Franc-led blend from organic Pardas in the Bitlles river valley. Wild boar print labels (Sus Scrofa) reflect the Mediterranean forest reserve at the estate.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

First single-variety Cabernet Sauvignon labelled and bottled in Spain. Single-vineyard from the 1963-planted Vinya La Scala plot at Chateau Leon in Torrelavit.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Single-vineyard Cabernet Franc from the Vinya Le Havre plot at Torrelavit, an unusual mono-varietal Cab Franc for Penedes.