Tag archive:Vendimia

“Great wines must prove their origin”

We interviewed Joan Munné, technical director of Raventós y Blanc, after his stay in New Zealand, where he has carried out harvest work for four weeks. An enriching experience both professionally and personally. He comes from a peasant family in the heart of the Penedès, in Sant Pere de Riudebitlles. He is the youngest of […]

Micro Vinifications in the Garage

Vins Pepe Raventós, the power of expressing a terroir It was around 2014 when Pepe was living in New York and he was impressed by some wines that took him back to his childhood days, when -sometimes on the sly- he could taste wines in the farmhouses of peasant friends in the Pyrenees. Surprisingly, those […]

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 […]

Making wine

The 2019 harvest in Clos del Serral Making wine is probably the best thing that could ever have happened to us. The best knowledge that our ancestors have passed on to us and the best memory we can leave to our successors. Winemaking is connecting to the land and following its rhythm, and the land […]

The harvest of hope

The days just before the harvest days are almost like organizing a wedding. Looking up at the sky again and again, general excitement, an underlying feeling of nervousness that increases as the day gets closer.  The most important task during the preceding days is to visit each plot to see the maturity level of the […]

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 […]