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

It is also a company committed to sustainability

Technical sheet:

Winery: Can Bas (Pere Ventura)

D.O. Penedés

Vintage: 2016

Variety: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon

Alcohol: 15,8 % vol.

Tasting notes:

Appearance: Intense cherry in color with medium-high depth, this is a complex, warm, and generous wine.

Nose: Red, citrus, and ripe fruit stand out, such as redcurrant and plum, with a background of balsamic, smoky, and spicy notes typical of ageing in French oak.

Palate: The attack is clean and direct, followed by a firm, warm passage. Compote-like red fruit such as plum and balsamic notes. With round, ripe tannins, it is a wine of marked character and expressive complexity on the palate, deep and with a long finish. Conceived as a wine for cellaring.

Serving temperature: serve between 16 and 17 ºC

Geology and Soil:

Deep sandy loam, low in organic matter, with high water-retention capacity and optimal drainage.

Pairing

At Made in Spain Gourmet, we recommend it with meat-based stews; duck à l’orange, mushrooms, and truffle stews. With smoked delicacies, Iberian cured meats, acorn-fed ham, and aged cheeses.

Winemaking:

Hand-harvested and collected in small crates. At the winery, the grapes are chilled for 24 hours at a controlled temperature of 10 ºC. This is followed by the final inspection of the grapes on the sorting table and destemming. Gentle pressing with low yields and fermentation at a controlled temperature of 27ºC.

Bâtonnage for three months to gain volume and expression, with two pump-overs per day to encourage extraction. Subsequent ageing for eighteen months in new French oak barrels.

Bottled and kept for a minimum of one year in the winery before release. A wine for cellaring, with an optimum ageing potential of 10 years.

At Can Bas, the wines they make are honest and genuine. In reality, they are true witnesses to what has taken place in their home 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 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 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 that the owners have instilled in them.

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, sound judgment, and the desire to innovate stirred by curiosity. 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 make every effort to adapt the vineyard work calendar to the needs of each plot, each variety, or each individual vine, following a meticulous code of good practice. 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 which, today, makes only wines from the vineyards of its own estate.

Can Bas is a property, a land, a compendium of history, a cultural link, the sum of dreams, effort, knowledge, experience, and work. It is a benchmark within the geographical framework of the Penedès and a site 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 constitutes 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 house of Mr. Bas. Although the estate and agricultural operation already existed in the Middle Ages, the name that has endured to the present day originated at the end of the 17th century. In memory of that moment, the CAN BAS logo uses an uppercase Roman-style 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 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 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 philosophy, the CAN BAS brand establishes blue as its corporate color. A deep, warm, calm, luminous, reverberant blue; a symbol of trust and sincerity. A blue that is a metaphor for time and the 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 work in the vineyard and wine as both a privilege and a responsibility. At Can Bas, they have the privilege of working at what they love; the privilege of making unique wines that express the qualities of the land they care for; of being 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 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 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 immense natural and human quality, so that you may enjoy them in all their fullness.

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 near 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, and even Iberian, times shows that vine cultivation 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 coastal vineyard within the municipality of Sant Sadurní d’Anoia.

At Can Bas, they understand that every plot is unique and that every vineyard has its own personality. Consequently, the work and care they devote to it are exclusive. They have century-old vineyards that produce very little fruit but of outstanding 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 location and orientation of the plots, the different soils, altitudes, topographies, 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.