MontRubí
(Winery in Penedès)

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About Winery and Wines

When MontRubí was founded in 1984 in an 1880’s building which had been producing wines and oil for export to Cuba until the early 20th century, we started with the production of cava. Few years later, after experiencing the battle of prices which the cava industry was going through, we decided to change direction and made a strong bet towards a different project: produce still wines with indigenous grapes and that’s when the Gaintus Project was born. This project started in the year 2000 and reflected our interest in the recovery of the grape Sumoll, a variety which had been widely extended in Catalonia and specially in Penedès. However, since this is a delicate grape with certain difficulties to grow, combined with the Phyloxera plague and its replacement with grapes for the production of cava and foreign grapes, Sumoll was almost extinct. In the year 2001, after the recovery of an old Sumoll vineyard which had “survived” the extinction, we released Gaintus, the world’s first 100% Sumoll red wine. The name Gaintus refers to a climbing trail in the Pyrenees and it symbolizes the challenge that MontRubí was facing as well as being pioneers in opening a new path. It was a long journey, since when we decided to recover Sumoll everyone around was recommending us against it because it was a delicate grape with its difficulties to grow. It was an experimental phase as there was hardly any information on how to deal with this grape. Nevertheless, we can say that, along all these years, we kept learning how to domesticate it and that is how we obtained the recognition for being the world pioneers in the production of wines with Sumoll.

The 30 hectares of vineyards in MontRubí are located on mountains between 400 and 800 m.a.s.l., in the Coastal Catalan mountain range with Mediterranean climate and continental influence, in our estate of 100 hectares. The significant thermal amplitude between day and night allows us to preserve the grapes’ acidity due to its slow maturation. Our soils, clayey-calcareous, sandy-calcareous and slate, retain the humidity from the rains and favor the plant’s resistance to the summer harshness. These soils are not uniform, and the combination of the different textures gives the wines more complexity, character and minerality. With these characteristics, we aim at a style with focus in the fruit, the freshness and the elegance.

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