Can Bas Domini Vinícola is a historic estate belonging to the Pere Ventura Group, located in Subirats (Penedès), 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 wines.

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Technical sheet:

Winery: Can Bas (Pere Ventura)

D.O. Penedès

Vintage: 2021

Variety: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon.

Alcohol: 13 % vol.

Tasting note:

Appearance: pale yellow, clear, with medium depth.

Nose: Aromatically intense, with tropical notes such as passion fruit and mango, combined with sweet Mediterranean fruit notes (vine peach and apricot). Subtle toasted notes from the new oak.

Palate: luscious, silky and fresh, with integrated acidity. The fruity notes from the nose are clearly defined. The finish is long and persistent.

Serving temperature: serve at 10 ºC

Geology and Soil:

Loamy soil with a slightly alkaline pH which, together with the low presence of organic matter, favors optimal vine-growing conditions.

Pairing

A fine match for risotto, spiced vegetables, grilled or baked white fish, and game dishes such as Catalan-style poularde stewed in white wine on a bed of fresh grape cream. Also with creamy and aged sheep’s or goat’s cheeses. It also pairs well with foie gras entier.

Winemaking:

Hand harvest. The grapes are picked into small crates and refrigerated for 24 hours at 10ºC. Final grape inspection follows on the sorting table, then destemming. Skin maceration in the press before gentle pressing with low yields. Fermentation at a controlled temperature of 15 ºC. 35% of the must is fermented in new 500-liter French oak barrels and the rest in stainless steel tanks. This is followed by six months of ageing to increase the complexity of the resulting wine. A wine for ageing; optimal within two years.

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At Can Bas, they are meticulous and honest from the deepest part of their essence. They have found excellence through the roots of the land, through knowledge and experience.

At Can Bas, they make authentic terroir wines.

As a tribute to the Mediterranean roots of the Can Bas wine estate, the CAN BAS brand establishes blue as its corporate color. A deep, warm, serene, luminous, reverberating 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.

At Can Bas, the wines they make are honest and genuine. In truth, they are the real witnesses to what has happened on their estate over the course of the 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 vintage in the Penedès area.

At Can Bas, they work every day to obtain wines that, above all, express the bunches grown in their vineyards and the spirit instilled in them by the owners.

At Can Bas, they consider viticulture and winemaking not to be exact sciences. Rather, they are practices sustained by intuition, experience, sacrifice, perseverance, determination, good judgment and the restless desire to innovate sparked by curiosity. All of this is driven by the work that their workers’ hands devote to both vineyard and winery.

At Can Bas, they devote every effort to adapting the vineyard work calendar to the needs of each plot, each variety and each individual vine, following a scrupulous code of good practices. And when the time comes to vinify, 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 devoted uninterruptedly to viticulture.

Can Bas is a winery where, today, they produce only wines from the vineyards on their 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 within the geography 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 constitutes 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—after the owner, preceded by the word Can, meaning house of. Thus, the name Can Bas means the house of Mr. Bas. Although the estate and agricultural operation 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 moment, the CAN BAS logo uses an uppercase Roman 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 framed within a rhomboid figure of centrifugal composition, uncommon in this region. This cross crowns the bell gable of Sant Joan Salerm, the Romanesque church owned by the Can Bas estate, where the house, vines and crops were born. The cross is the symbol of this house, witness to its history and evolution. It 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, serene, luminous, reverberating 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 the work of the vineyard 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 custodians of a past, a heritage and a landscape; of living with a balanced natural and human environment; 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 move forward a land, a house, a company; to listen to the farmer, the winemaker and everyone who forms part of their team; to serve the customer above all else. Also the responsibility to preserve the environment and to act according to a code of good practices 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 can 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, on this estate, vine cultivation goes back many more centuries.

Today, the Can Bas wine estate brings together 60.5 ha of vineyard spread across the plain near the property, 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 vineyard on the Serral slope 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. As a result, the work and care they devote to each one is exclusive. They have century-old vineyards that produce very little fruit but of extraordinary quality; young vines that bring lightness and freshness to some of the wines they make; and mature vines approaching thirty years old that lend a serene, mature character to their aged wines.

Thanks to the diversity of the plots’ locations and orientations, the different soils, altitudes, topographies and range of microclimates, at Can Bas they can cultivate both native and foreign white and red grape varieties, adapting each variety to the terroir conditions most favorable to it.