Wine route through cava country

In the morn­ing:

Records in Sant Sadurní dat­ing back to 1312 show the Mestres fam­ily as owner of vine­yards and traders of grain and wine. That means the fam­ily has been in­volved in wine over 28 gen­er­a­tions. It also ex­plains why the fam­ily chose to label their first Cava, or sparkling wine, to cel­e­brate the found­ing of Bode­gas Mestres with “1312”. Vis­i­tors to the Mestres win­ery can still see, even today, an ex­ten­sive col­lec­tion of doc­u­ments re­lat­ing to the an­ces­tors of the fam­ily; scrolls and doc­u­ments from 1312, 1591, 1607 ... 1832, are mile­stones in the his­tory of the fam­ily and ver­ify their ded­i­ca­tion to the world of wine over the cen­turies.

Today, the 28th gen­er­a­tion of the Mestres fam­ily fol­lows the path laid down by its pre­de­ces­sors in its re­lent­less spirit and en­tre­pre­neur­ship that char­ac­ter­ized the Mestres fam­ily; a win­ery with seven cen­turies of his­tory.All the prod­ucts from Mestres' cel­lars re­flect tra­di­tion and top qual­ity cava pro­duc­tion, but there is one, la­beled “CO­QUET ” that de­serves spe­cial at­ten­tion.

The name Co­quet comes from the es­tate named “Here­tat Mas Co­quet” , as recorded in the deeds from the year 1607. Turquoise is the colour on the label of Mestres Brut and is the colour found on the façade and rooms of the win­ery's head­quar­ters which is also the fam­ily house. The his­toric doc­u­men­ta­tion the Mestres fam­ily has been re­pro­duced in var­i­ous items of the new pack­ag­ing.

For lunch

Once known as Els Lle­doners, L'am­a­gat restau­rant is the re­sult of the dreams of Car­les Jiménez, chef and Nuria Montser­rat, the head waiter.The home baked dishes are faith­ful to fam­ily and adapted slightly and adapt­ing to the tastes of mod­ern cus­tomer. Each of his dishes is an an ex­cel­lent rep­re­sen­ta­tion of today's in­no­va­tion in the mar­ket prod­ucts.L'am­a­gat restau­rant has a young team eager to do well, and es­pe­cially in mak­ing sure that the cus­tomer leaves sat­is­fied and eager to re­turn . Apart from the main menu, there are three other types of menus: the daily menu, one for Fri­day night and a Sat­ur­day lunch menu. They also pre­pare dishes to take away. It is a nicely dec­o­rated and com­fort­able restau­rant, in the very heart of the Penedès. The wine list has a great col­lec­tion of the ex­cel­lent local wines.