Wine route through Penedès

In the morn­ing:

The be­gin­nings were around the eleventh cen­tury dur­ing the Re­con­quista, with the most ac­cepted hy­poth­e­sis link­ing the land to the monastery of Sant Cugat. There are doc­u­ments from the pe­riod that record the land being passed to Ger­ald Ale­many by the abbot to build a de­fence tower, Torre Gal­i­many, that en­sured the area being held in the case of siege. When hos­til­i­ties ended in the area in the 12th cen­tury, agri­cul­ture be­came the main­stay of the re­gion.

The Se­gura Vi­u­das mas­sia, or farm­house, as we know it today, is the re­sult of the dif­fer­ent uses that it has had for over ten cen­turies.

The win­ery makes cham­pagne and wine to­gether with a strong sense of com­mit­ment to find, cat­a­logue and pro­mote the Here­tat's bi­o­log­i­cal di­ver­sity. To this end, the win­ery for many years has car­ried out an in-depth study of the bio­di­ver­sity of an ecosys­tem that has de­vel­oped grape grow­ing for cen­turies around the Bitlles river: the birds, flow­ers and their med­i­c­i­nal use, wild veg­e­ta­tion and fish.

An in­no­v­a­tive spirit is the dri­ving force and the chal­lenge that leads Her­i­tat to­wards a cul­ture where the wine grapes are ctreated far be­yond a sim­ple pro­duc­tive con­cept, at all times care­fully in­te­grat­ing the final prod­uct with the tra­di­tional cul­ture, land­scape, flora and fauna.

There guided tours of the cel­lar with an ex­pla­na­tion of wine mak­ing and cava process and, weather per­mit­ting a tour around the vine­yards, where vis­i­tors can learn about the cycle of the vines them­selves. Fi­nally,it is back to the orig­i­nal 12th cen­tury house for a wine tast­ing ses­sion ac­com­pa­nied by a cava aper­i­tif.

For lunch

The Sol i vi restau­rant and hotel are lo­cated in a farm­house sur­rounded by vine­yards in the Cata­lan re­gion of Alt Penedès, at Subi­rats, 4 km from the cava cap­i­tal Sant Sadurní Anoia, and 6 km from Vil­lafranca del Penedès, the wine cap­i­tal. In the à la carte restau­rant you can try a va­ri­ety of home cooked dishes typ­i­cal of Cata­lan and Mediter­ranean cui­sine. As for the wines, there is a wide se­lec­tion of local wines on a list of more than 600 la­bels. There is also the pos­si­bil­ity of or­gan­is­ing ban­quets and cel­e­bra­tions of all kinds, de­pend­ing on the needs of the cus­tomers. The set­ting of the restau­rant is quiet and re­laxed, sur­rounded by na­ture. A hotel on the same prop­erty, of­fers 25 com­fort­able and spa­cious rooms, a swim­ming pool and ex­clu­sive ser­vices and per­son­al­ized tours.