Can Bas Domini VinÃcola is a historic estate belonging to the Pere Ventura Group, located in Subirats (Penedès), where authentic estate wine is made.
At Can Bas, they express themselves in a contemporary and honest way, from the deepest part of their essence. They find excellence in the roots of the land, in knowledge and in experience. At Can Bas, they reveal the most sublime potential preserved in memory to craft authentic terroir wines.
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Technical sheet:
Winery: Can Bas (Pere Ventura)
D.O. Penedès
Vintage: 2019
Variety: 55% Chardonnay 45% Xarel.lo.
Alcohol: 14.5 % vol.
Tasting note:
Appearance: pale yellow and clear.
On the nose, it shows a balanced combination of citrus and vanilla notes from the oak.
On the palate, the entry is light, the texture pleasant and the aromas intense, with a long finish.
Serving temperature: between 10 and 12 ºC
Geology and Soil:
The Chardonnay grows on calcareous-clay soil with a slightly alkaline pH. Vine vigor is controlled through the use of cover crops. The small proportion of Xarel·lo comes from the sandier part of the estate, with low water retention, which naturally causes significant water stress for the plant in summer.
Pairing
At Made in Spain, we recommend pairing it with oysters, shellfish and white fish. It also works beautifully with our delicious El Greco foie gras, Oncala cheese creams and Paul & Pippa crackers. Another suggestion is to enjoy it with our Dehesa de la Albufera rice dishes, a paella or a good brothy lobster rice.
Winemaking:
Hand harvest and selection in the vineyard, followed by selection on the sorting table. The grapes are placed in crates and refrigerated for 24 hours at around 10 ºC. Destemming is carried out to avoid herbaceous and bitter notes. Gentle pressing with low yields. Fermentation of the different varieties separately at 15ºC. Part of the must resulting from the blend of the two varieties is fermented in 500-liter French oak barrels for six months to increase the wine’s complexity. Clay jars are also used during the ageing and fermentation process.
Can Bas is a place where vines have been cultivated for more than two thousand years; a settlement inhabited since ancient times; a manor house built on an old farmhouse; an agricultural production unit devoted uninterruptedly to viticulture.
Can Bas is a winery where, today, they produce only wines from the vineyards on their estate.
Can Bas is a property, a land, a compendium of history, a cultural link, the sum of hopes, efforts, knowledge, experience and work. It is a benchmark within the geography of Penedès, as well as a point of interest for tourism and wine tourism.
Can Bas is a place and an idea; perhaps also a passion. It is a way of making wine, a landscape and a people.
All of this constitutes the wine estate of Can Bas.
The Brand
The name Can Bas, which today designates the brand of its wines and the wine estate, dates back to 1668. In Catalonia, it is traditional to name country houses—large or small—after the owner, preceded by the word Can, meaning house of. Thus, the name Can Bas means the house of Mr. Bas. Although the estate and agricultural operation already existed in the Middle Ages, the name that has endured to this day originated at the end of the 17th century. In memory of that moment, the CAN BAS logo uses an uppercase Roman typeface: classic, slender and set within a rectangular frame finished with Baroque-inspired scrolls.
In honor of the age and medieval origins of the wine estate, the CAN BAS brand is also distinguished by its symbol. It is a Greek cross framed within a rhomboid figure of centrifugal composition, uncommon in this region. This cross crowns the bell gable of Sant Joan Salerm, the Romanesque church owned by the Can Bas estate, where the house, vines and crops were born. The cross is the symbol of this house, witness to its history and evolution. It represents the crossroads where land, time, people, vines and wines converge.
Finally, as a tribute to the Mediterranean roots of the Can Bas wine estate and as an expression of its philosophy, the CAN BAS brand establishes blue as its corporate color. A deep, warm, serene, luminous, reverberating blue; a symbol of trust and sincerity. A blue that is a metaphor for time and the sign of a spirit. Blue honors all those who have made it possible for Can Bas to be Can Bas.
The Values
At Can Bas, they understand the work of the vineyard and wine as both a privilege and a responsibility. At Can Bas, they have the privilege of working in what they are passionate about; the privilege of making unique wines that express the qualities of the land they care for; of being custodians of a past, a heritage and a landscape; of living with a balanced natural and human environment; and of contributing to the culture of vines and wine. At Can Bas, they have the responsibility to rethink their work day after day in order to improve it. The responsibility to move forward a land, a house, a company; to listen to the farmer, the winemaker and everyone who forms part of their team; to serve the customer above all else. Also the responsibility to preserve the environment and to act according to a code of good practices and criteria of environmental sustainability. At Can Bas, they have set themselves the goal of making honest wines, imbued with immense natural and human quality, so that you can enjoy them in all their fullness.
The Vineyards
At Can Bas, vines have been cultivated without interruption for more than a thousand years. A document from the late 10th century proves that very near Sant Joan Salerm—the church owned by Can Bas—there were vineyards that were bought and sold among the medieval Catalan nobility. However, evidence from Roman and even Iberian times shows that, on this estate, vine cultivation goes back many more centuries.
Today, the Can Bas wine estate brings together 60.5 ha of vineyard spread across the plain near the property, the Font de Can Bas, the slopes of Les Tarumbes, the hollow of the Els Bribons stream and the sunny side of the Els Basets hill, as well as the vineyard on the Serral slope within the municipality of Sant Sadurnà d’Anoia.
At Can Bas, they understand that every plot is unique and that every vineyard has its own personality. As a result, the work and care they devote to each one is exclusive. They have century-old vineyards that produce very little fruit but of extraordinary quality; young vines that bring lightness and freshness to some of the wines they make; and mature vines approaching thirty years old that lend a serene, mature character to their aged wines.
Thanks to the diversity of the plots’ locations and orientations, the different soils, altitudes, topographies and range of microclimates, at Can Bas they can cultivate both native and foreign white and red grape varieties, adapting each variety to the terroir conditions most favorable to it.