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Nadal Winery Guide

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Winery Overview

Long established as one of the Penedès wine region’s best sparkling-wine producers, Nadal has a remarkable history. An ancient parchment dated 1510 records Pere Nadal as owner of Can Nadal de la Boadella in Torrelavit. According to the estate’s historical records, the Nadal family has cultivated vines and made wine there ever since, even through the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War.

Yet Nadal’s modern sparkling-wine tradition traces back to one man – Ramon Nadal Giró. During the Spanish Civil War, the estate was partially expropriated to build an airfield. In 1941, Giró recovered the vineyards the army had used and built the foundational cellar twenty meters underground. Two years later, in 1943, Nadal produced its first bottle of Brut.

Today the Nadal family continues to follow its founder’s philosophy, producing superlative, long-aged Corpinnat sparkling wines and still white wines in Penedès. Each successive generation has left its mark, but Ramon Nadal Giró’s original mantra remains intact: respect for the land and terroir. Terroir is at the heart of it all. Committed to the historic varieties of Penedès, Nadal works with estate vineyards, some with vines more than 80 years old. This enables winemaker and owner Xavier Nadal to craft different wine styles, adding generous complexity and depth to the final product. Penedès sparkling wine, ladies and gentlemen, does not get much better than this.

Nadal was one of the six founding wineries behind Corpinnat, alongside Gramona, Llopart, Recaredo, Sabaté i Coca and Torelló. The initiative began in 2015; the Corpinnat collective mark was presented in 2018, and Nadal’s sparkling wines have been marketed as Corpinnat since 2019. Its rules include organic grapes, manual harvesting, on-site vinification, and a minimum of 18 months’ bottle aging.

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With a passion for food & drink that verges on the obsessive, wine writer James Lawrence has traveled the world in search of the perfect tipple. To date, nothing has surpassed the 1952 R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia Rioja Reserva, tasted in the cobweb-filled cellars with owner María José. Meanwhile, James has written for a wide variety of publications, including The Telegraph, Decanter, Harpers Wine & Spirit, The Drinks Business, and Wine Business International. He lives in South Wales and returns to his former university city, Bilbao, as much as possible.

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