Can Bas Domini Vinícola is a historic estate, part of the Pere Ventura Group, located in Subirats (Penedés), 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-driven wines.

A company committed to sustainability

Technical sheet:

Winery: Can Bas (Pere Ventura)

D.O. Penedés

Vintage: 2021

Variety: 100% Muscat.

Alcohol: 11,9 % vol.

Tasting notes:

Appearance: Pale, bright gold color.

Nose: Aromatically intense, with fresh white fruit (apple and pear), floral notes, Mediterranean herbs, and vanilla standing out.

Palate: It has a rich, oily texture, showing volume and well-integrated acidity. The finish is refreshing and long.

Serving temperature: serve between 8 and 10 ºC

Geology and Soil:

The sandy loam soil and slightly alkaline pH allow good drainage which, together with the low presence of organic matter, enables the vines to be cultivated in optimal conditions.

Pairing

At Made in Spàin Gourmet, we recognize that this is a very versatile wine. It is ideal as an aperitif throughout the year, by the glass, or in harmony with dishes based on white meat, fish, and pasta. It also pairs perfectly with Oriental cuisine—sushi, uramakis, bluefin tuna, truly just about everything—and let’s not forget creamy and aged cheeses.

Winemaking:

The harvest is carried out by hand. In the winery, the grapes are chilled for 24 hours at a controlled temperature of 10 ºC. This is followed by the final grape inspection on the sorting table, and destemming. The grapes are left to macerate for two hours before being pressed. After gentle pressing with a low yield, most of the must is transferred to stainless steel tanks and a small amount to French oak barrels (10%) and amphorae (5%), where it ferments at a controlled temperature of 15 ºC. This is followed by a six-month ageing period. The different musts are then blended and bottled.
At Can Bas, the wines they make are honest and genuine. In truth, they are the true witnesses of what has taken place in our house over four seasons.

At Can Bas, they are not interested in repeating the same wine year after year, nor in intervening to obtain an exact copy. Every bottle that leaves their winery reflects the typicity of the estate, as well as the climatic and environmental conditions of the harvest in the Penedés area.

At Can Bas, they work every day to obtain wines that, above all, are the expression of the bunches 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. Rather, they are practices sustained by intuition, experience, sacrifice, perseverance, tenacity, good judgment, and the desire to innovate that curiosity stirs. All of this is driven by the work that the hands of their workers devote both to the vineyard and to the winery.

At Can Bas, they put all their effort into adapting the vineyard work calendar to the needs of each plot, each variety, or each individual vine, following a scrupulous code of good practice. And when the time comes to make the wine, they are even more meticulous. 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 dedicated uninterruptedly to viticulture.

Can Bas is a winery where, today, they make only wines from the vineyards of their own 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 in the geographical setting 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 makes up 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—with the owner’s name preceded by the word Can, meaning house of. Thus, the name Can Bas means the house of Mr. Bas. Although the estate and farm 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 time, the CAN BAS logo adopts an uppercase Roman-style typeface: classic, slender, and set within a rectangular frame finished with Baroque-inspired scrolls.

In honor of the antiquity and medieval origins of the wine estate, the CAN BAS brand is also distinguished by its emblem. It is a Greek cross framed within a rhomboid figure of 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 that saw 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, vineyards, and wines come together.

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, placid, luminous, reverberant blue; a symbol of trust and sincerity. A blue that is a metaphor for time and a 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 working with vines 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 the custodians 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 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 carry forward a land, a house, a company; to listen to the farmer, the winemaker, and all the people who are part of their team; to put the customer above all else. Also the responsibility to preserve the environment and to act according to a code of good practice and criteria of environmental sustainability. At Can Bas, they have set themselves the goal of making honest wines, imbued with tremendous natural and human quality, so that you may enjoy them to the fullest.

The Vineyards

At Can Bas, vines have been cultivated uninterruptedly 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 Catalan medieval nobility. However, evidence from the Roman period, and even the Iberian period, shows that vine growing on their estate dates back many more centuries.

Today, the Can Bas wine estate comprises 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 hillside 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. Accordingly, the work and care they devote to each one are exclusive. They have century-old vineyards that produce very few grapes but of outstanding quality; young vines that bring lightness and freshness to some of the wines they make; and mature vines, close to thirty years old, that give a serene and mature character to their aged wines.

Thanks to the diversity of location and orientation of the plots, the different soils, altitudes, topographies, and range of microclimates, at Can Bas they can cultivate native and foreign white and red grape varieties, as well as adapt each variety to the terroir conditions most favorable to it.