Category archive:Our people

Coldplay’s drummer visits Raventós i Blanc

From the Olympic Stadium Lluís Companys to our family farm. From decibels and euphoria to peace and tranquility. From the excitement of music to the passion for viticulture. The visit of Will Champion, drummer and second voice of Coldplay, to Raventós i Blanc was a Viva la Vida, a way to share the multiple connections […]

More than 10 years of animal traction on the estate

 10 hectares and three horses More than a decade ago, around 2009, we began to work our most emblematic plot, Clos del Serral, with the help of horses, as an alternative to the use of tractors in such a unique environment. The benefits were almost immediate, and we decided to extend the work with animal […]

«Let the world get excited when they see us»

This is what we dream about for our wine-growing area, a geographical area scattered with vineyards that are cared for and worked on with the utmost respect in accordance with ecological and sustainable viticulture. Where the farmer earns a good living. “What we have to achieve is to unite winemakers and wine-growers to work together […]

Bordeaux Experience

05.04.2022

We started our route from Sant Sadurní d’Anoia at 7 in a cold Thursday morning in February. Six hours and 634 km later we arrived at Saint Emillion and just breathing the thrilling fresh air of the Bordeaux region we knew that these two days were predicted to be a wonderful rediscovery of great vineyards.  […]

The Spring of Futuro Viñador

– Mediterranean Mosaic – “Mediterraneanism is the most poetic attitude to inhabit a landscape.” In February 2020 we announced that FUTURO VIÑADOR was no longer just a dream: the association that 16 Spanish producers had spent more than a year enthusiastically drawing up; all those meetings, trips, and lengthy talks was finally a reality: Futuro […]

The wine “Ciutat Nua”, beyond the walls of Can Brians

With great enthusiasm we want to make you participate in this new project of solidarity, and along with this last shipment of 2020  you will get also this unique wine.   “To be able to make a wine for the inmates that we could market and in this way, do two things, give jobs to the […]

A Harvest to forget

The first forecasts, with a winter and early spring generous in water, seemed to announce a good harvest, far from those years of prolonged drought. But, if public health has been tragically threatened by the Covid19 , the health of the vineyards has also suffered a historic blow. While the beneficial autumn rains helped to […]

Blind champions

By Joan Munné, technical director and oenologist in Raventós i Blanc. A farmer from a very young age, I have been working at Raventos i Blanc for fifteen years. I graduated as an oenologist at the URV (2008-09) and studied to become a Sommelier at the CETT-UB (2012-14). Harvests at Graham Beck, Quinta Sardonia and […]

Lost traditions

A popular tradition which exists in several European countries, customary since ages past and carried out in an artisan way once a year, coinciding with the coldest months of winter, which provide the best possible conditions for manipulating the fat and meat from the pig. It continues today but is no longer performed like it […]

When everything comes full circle

“Our work, basically, is like an artist’s. We strive to obtain the best possible grapes and wine from each plot.” This is how Pepe defines his passion, his work. This is how the harvest begins for us, finalizing sketches and creations, the most longed-for moment of the year. The moment when anything is possible. Just […]

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