Barcelona & Penedès wine travel guide

In the Catalan region of Bages, Valentí Roqueta founded Abadal on the old family estate. The estate looks back on more than eight centuries of winemaking history: the visit often begins at Masia Roque…

On the Can Vendrell de la Codina estate in Sant Pau d'Ordal, the Albet family worked as tenant farmers from the early 20th century; only in the 1980s were they able to buy it. In the late 1970s Josep …

In Alella, about 15 kilometres north of Barcelona, 54 winegrowers founded the Alella Vinícola cooperative in 1906. Architect Jeroni Martorell, a disciple of Gaudí, designed the cellar and headquarters…

In the centre of Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, on the Plaça del Pont Romà, stands the Cava Blancher building. The winery was founded by Antonio Capdevila Pujol and his wife Teresa Blancher Solanes, and is now…

In the Garraf Massif, in Avinyonet del Penedès, Carlos Esteva (1950–2023) originally set out to restore a centuries-old masia, but the old vineyards around it soon caught his attention. The estate cov…

The Bolet family has been making wine in Castellví de la Marca, in the Penedès, for more than seven generations. The cellar is in the family masia dating from 1619, and next to it stands the Modernist…

Just outside Sant Sadurní d'Anoia is the winery of Agustí Torelló Mata, now known as Celler Kripta. The name comes from the house's best-known wine: Kripta, a sparkling wine in an amphora-shaped bottl…

Wine has been made at Heretat Baltà de Cela in Guardiola de Font-rubí, in the Alt Penedès, since 1889. The estate makes wine and olive oil from its own land, with xarel·lo in the starring role: the ra…

In the middle of Sant Sadurní d'Anoia stands the yellow façade of Cava Jaume Giró i Giró, a family business that started out trading wine. Jaume Giró i Giró's marriage into the Gramona winemaking fami…

Ceferino Carrión, better known as Jean Leon, was born in Santander in 1928 and later ran the restaurant La Scala in Beverly Hills. In 1962 he went looking in the Penedès for the best land to make his …

Deep beneath Sant Sadurní d'Anoia lie the cellars that Joan Juvé Baqués and Teresa Camps Ferrer dug out under their house: today six levels of tunnels at a constant temperature, where the bottles in t…

Near Manresa, with a view of Montserrat, stands the castle of Oller del Mas, whose construction began as early as the 10th century. Over the centuries it has been extended and restored. Portraits of m…

Wine has been made on this estate in Pacs del Penedès since 1790. The Cusiné family took it over in the 1970s, and the third generation is now at the helm. Parés Baltà is regarded as a pioneer of biod…

In 1924 Josep Mata Capellades began building a cellar under his house in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, in the Alt Penedès. He named the winery after his father, Recaredo. The family became a pioneer of brut n…

The Sumarroca family originally comes from Llimiana, in the Pallars Jussà, but in the 1980s Carles Sumarroca settled in the Penedès and bought estates in Subirats and Banyeres del Penedès. Later came …

The Torelló family's oldest document dates from 1395 and concerns the Mas de la Torrevella, the site of today's Can Martí estate in Gelida. Twenty-three generations of the family have since grown vine…

Cal Xim is an institution that has been grilling lamb chops for more than 51 years in Sant Pau d'Ordal, in the middle of the Penedès wine region. The soul of the place is Santi Amigó Castellví, who ha…

Wine hotels and masias at Spanish wineries: where to stay in Catalonia, Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Mallorca and Andalusia.

From six-storey cellars in Sant Sadurní to biodynamic estates: how to visit the sparkling wines of the Penedès, an hour from Barcelona.