Can Bas Domini Vinícola is a historic estate belonging to the Pere Ventura Group, located in Subirats (Penedès), where authentic estate wine is crafted.
At Can Bas, they express themselves in a contemporary and honest way, from the very depths 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 qualities of a potential preserved in memory to produce genuine terroir-driven wines.

It is also a company committed to sustainability

Technical sheet:

Winery: Can Bas (Pere Ventura)

D.O. Penedès

Vintage: 2016

Variety: 70% Syrah and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon

Alcohol: 15,8 % vol.

Tasting note:

Appearance: medium-bodied wine with an intense picota cherry color.

Nose: aromas of red fruit with notes of underbrush, vanilla, coffee, spices, and cedar.

Palate: red fruit comes through with intensity, together with subtle spicy notes. With rounded tannins and a perfect balance between freshness and acidity, the finish is long and persistent.

Serving temperature: serve between 16 and 17 ºC

Geology and Soil:

Clay-loam soil, characterized by good drainage, a medium-fine texture, and low organic matter content.

Pairing

At Made in Spain Gourmet, we recommend it with all types of meat, such as duck or premium veal, a fine beef fillet or duck à l’orange, as well as the finest Iberian cured meats and acorn-fed ham. It also pairs beautifully with smoked products such as mojama or salmon and, of course, with excellent aged sheep’s or goat’s cheeses.

Production:

The harvest is carried out by hand and the grapes are collected in small crates. In the winery, they are chilled for 24 hours at a controlled temperature of 10ºC. This is followed by the final grape inspection on the sorting table and destemming. The grapes macerate in open vats for two weeks with daily punching down (pigeage) to encourage extraction until fermentation is complete, at a controlled temperature of 25ºC. The wine is then aged for eighteen months in new French oak barrels and kept for one year in bottle at the winery before release. A wine for cellaring, with an optimum aging potential of seven years.

Can Bas, Premium Estate Wines
At Can Bas, the wines they craft are honest and genuine. In truth, they are the true witnesses to everything that has happened on their estate over the course of four seasons.

At Can Bas, they are not interested in repeating the same wine year after year, nor in intervening to create an exact copy. Each bottle that leaves their winery reflects the character of the estate, as well as the climatic and environmental conditions of the harvest in the Penedès setting.

At Can Bas, they work every day to obtain wines that, above all, are the expression of the clusters grown in their vineyards and of the spirit instilled in them by the owners.

At Can Bas, they believe that viticulture and winemaking are not exact sciences. They are rather a practice sustained by intuition, experience, sacrifice, perseverance, determination, good judgment, and the restless curiosity to innovate. And all of this is driven by the work that their team’s hands devote both to the vineyard and to the winery.

At Can Bas, they devote every effort to adapting the vineyard work calendar to the needs of each plot, each variety, and each individual vine, following a meticulous code of good practices. And when the time comes to vinify, they are even more exacting. The result is exceptional wines.

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 that, today, produces wines exclusively from the vineyards of its own estate.

Can Bas is a property, a land, a compendium of history, a bond of culture, the sum of dreams, efforts, knowledge, experience, and work. It is a benchmark within the geographical area of Penedès, as well as a place of tourist and wine-tourism interest.

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 makes up the Can Bas wine estate.

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 the agricultural holding already existed in the Middle Ages, the name that has endured to this day originated in the late 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 set within a rhomboid figure with a centrifugal composition, unusual in these lands. This cross crowns the bell gable of Sant Joan Salerm, the Romanesque church owned by the Can Bas estate, which witnessed the birth of the house, vineyards, and crops. The cross is the symbol of this house, a witness to its history and evolution. The cross 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 guiding 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. The blue honors everyone who has 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 crafting unique wines that express the qualities of the land they care for; of being guardians of a past, a heritage, and a landscape; of living alongside a natural and human environment in balance; and of contributing to the culture of vine and wine. At Can Bas, they have the responsibility to rethink their work day after day in order to improve it. The responsibility to carry forward a land, a house, a company; to listen to the farmer, the winemaker, and everyone who is part of the team; to put 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 producing honest wines, imbued with immense natural and human quality, so that you may enjoy them in their fullest expression.

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 close to 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 times, and even Iberian times, shows that on their estate, vine growing dates back many more centuries.

Today, the Can Bas wine estate encompasses 60,5 ha of vineyards spread across the plain near the estate, 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 Serral coast vineyard within the municipality of Sant Sadurní d’Anoia.

At Can Bas, they understand that each plot is unique and that each vineyard has its own personality. Consequently, the work and care devoted to it are exclusive. They have century-old vineyards that produce very few grapes but of exceptional quality; young vines that bring lightness and freshness to some of the wines they make; and mature vines approaching thirty years of age that lend a serene, mature character to their aged wines.

Thanks to the diversity of the plots’ locations and orientations, the different soils, altitudes, landforms, and range of microclimates, at Can Bas they can cultivate both native and foreign white and red grape varieties, and adapt each variety to the terroir conditions most favorable to it.