Food & Wine

Wine cellar. ANNA VICENS

Wine route through La Terra del Cava

In the morn­ing:

Forns Raventós (Santa Fe del Penedès)

The win­ery’s founder, Al­bert Forns Raventós, was from a fam­ily of grape farm­ers who also sold wine as far back as 1836, ac­cord­ing to fam­ily doc­u­ments. In 1954, Al­bert gave up the wine trade to fully de­vote him­self to mak­ing cava, which he did until 1982. That was when his daugh­ter Maria Rosa Forns and her hus­band Jordi Sal­vany took over the fam­ily tra­di­tion. Today the third gen­er­a­tion has taken over the fam­ily legacy of mak­ing high qual­ity cava.

The win­ery is lo­cated in the mid­dle of Santa Fe del Penedès, eight me­tres un­der­ground, pro­vid­ing an ideal tem­per­a­ture for cava to ma­ture in the bot­tle.

How­ever, the work of pro­duc­ing the cava be­gins above ground in the vine­yards, where the firm uses meth­ods that are both ef­fi­cient and re­spect­ful of the en­vi­ron­ment. The cava is made only with freshly pressed must (grape juice), which is needed to at­tain the re­quired qual­ity.

The firm has stayed loyal to the tra­di­tional blends that use va­ri­eties of grape na­tive to the Penedès re­gion: macabeu, xarel·lo and par­el­lada. They also pro­duce sin­gu­lar wines using only the pinot noir va­ri­ety.

The dif­fer­ent cavas pro­duced by Forns Raventós are: FORNS RAVENTÓS: RESERVA FA­MIL­IAR, FORNS RAVENTÓS: RESERVA, AMIL­IAR MAG­NUM, ROSA DE FORNS RAVENTÓS, ORTUS DE FORNS RAVEN­TOS, AL­BERT FORNS GRAN RESERVA.

Vis­its by ap­point­ment.

www.​for​nsra​vent​os.​com

Tel: 938 974 894 / 650 793 159

For lunch:
Sumoll (La Granada)

The Sumoll restau­rant is lo­cated in a tra­di­tional farm­house that is the ideal set­ting for an es­tab­lish­ment de­voted to Cata­lan cui­sine, and is in the heart of Penedès, amid vine­yards that be­long to the restau­rant’s own­ers.

The farm­house is a mod­ernist-style build­ing called Masia Gustems, and with its ori­gins in the cul­tural ex­plo­sion that took place in the nou­cen­tist Barcelona of the early 20th cen­tury, its de­sign re­flects tra­di­tion and moder­nity.

Sumoll of­fers high qual­ity food made with local Penedès prod­ucts. In the sum­mer, din­ers can also take ad­van­tage of its won­der­ful ter­race, “Club sumoll”. Since its ren­o­va­tion in 2003, Sumoll of­fers both an in­ti­mate din­ing ex­pe­ri­ence and can also cater for groups.

The restau­rant has a lunchtime set menu, two gourmet menus, and a range of dishes on its gen­eral menu. It opens from Sun­day to Wednes­day lunchtimes, and from Thurs­day to Sat­ur­day lunchtimes and evenings.

grup­ferre.com/restau­rants

Tel: 93 858 91 22

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