Can Bas Domini Vinícola is a historic building, part of the Pere Ventura Group, located in Subirats (Penedés), where authentic estate wine is produced. At Can Bas, they express themselves in a contemporary and honest way from the depths 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 create authentic terroir wines. It is also a company committed to sustainability. Technical Data: Winery: Can Bas (Pere Ventura) D.O. Penedés Vintage: 2016 Variety: 70% Syrah and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon Alcohol: 15.8% vol. Tasting Notes: Appearance: medium layer wine with intense cherry color. Nose: aromas of red fruits and hints of undergrowth, vanilla, coffee, spices, and cedar. Palate: red fruit shows intensity, along with subtle spicy notes. With round tannins and a perfect balance between freshness and acidity, the finish is long and persistent. Service Temperature: serve between 16 and 17 ºC Geology and Soil: Clayey-loamy soil, characterized by good drainage, medium-fine texture, and low organic matter content. Pairing: At Made in Spain Gourmet, we recommend it with all kinds of meats, such as duck or extra beef, like a good beef steak or orange duck, with the best Iberian products, acorn-fed ham. Also with smoked products like mojama or salmon, and of course with excellent aged sheep or goat cheeses. Production: The harvest is done manually, and the grapes are collected in small boxes. In the winery, they are refrigerated for 24 hours at a controlled temperature of 10ºC. The final control of the grapes follows, passing through the selection table and destemming. The grape maceration takes place in an open barrel for two weeks with daily punching down (pigeage) to favor extraction until fermentation is complete, which takes place at a controlled temperature of 25ºC. It then undergoes an eighteen-month aging in new French oak barrels and one year of bottle aging in the winery before commercialization. A wine for aging, optimal for seven years. Can Bas, Premium Estate Wines At Can Bas, the wines they produce are honest and genuine. In reality, they are the true witnesses of what has happened in their house throughout the four seasons. At Can Bas, they are not interested in repeating a wine year after year, nor intervening to achieve an exact copy. Each bottle that leaves their winery reflects the typicality of the estate as well as the climatic and environmental conditions of the harvest in the Penedés area. At Can Bas, they work every day to obtain wines that, above all, are an expression of the grapes grown in their vineyards and of the spirit that the owners have instilled in them. At Can Bas, they consider that viticulture and winemaking are not exact sciences. They are rather a practice supported by intuition, experience, sacrifice, perseverance, stubbornness, good judgment, and the curiosity that drives innovation. And all of this, driven by the work that the hands of their workers dedicate to both the vineyard and the winery. At Can Bas, they make every effort to adapt the vineyard work schedule to the needs of each plot, each variety, or each particular vine, following a scrupulous code of good practices. And when it comes to winemaking, they are even more meticulous. Therefore, the result is exceptional wines. Can Bas is a place where the vineyard has been cultivated for more than two thousand years; a nucleus inhabited since ancient times; a manor house built on an old farmhouse; an agricultural production unit dedicated uninterruptedly to viticulture. Can Bas is a winery where, today, they only produce wines from the vineyards of their estate. Can Bas is a property, a land, a compendium of history, a nexus of culture, the sum of dreams, efforts, knowledge, experience, and work. It is a reference in the geographical framework of Penedès