D.O. PENEDÉS
CAVAS NADAL
Finca Nadal E-08733. El Pla del Penedès. Barcelona
Tel: 938 988 011 · Fax: 938 988 443
Web: www.nadal.com - E-mail: nadal@nadal.com

Welcome

You are about to begin a tour during which you will learn about a family, a country house, an estate and vines and discover how their cavas and noble wines are produced.

The personality and quality of each bottle of Nadal wine or cava is developed by using tradition, experience, technological know-how and rigorous control of the whole process: from the planting of the vines to the sale of the finished product.

History

Can Nadal de la Boadella was established at the start of the 16th century, in the Penedès region of Catalonia. A parchment scroll signed by the notary Francesch Berthomeu, dating back to 1510, names Pere NADAL as the owner of an agricultural estate located in Torrelavit. At the NADAL Estate they have never stopped growing vines and producing wine, even in the difficult years of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), when part of the estate was expropriated to build a military airfield.

Ramon Nadal Giró, an heir with initiative, born in 1903, when the Alt Penedès was just starting to replant the vineyards that were devastated by the Phylloxera plague. In 1941, Ramon Nadal Giró, founder of NADAL, replanted the vineyards in the family estate where the old vines had been uprooted to create the aforementioned military airfield. Two years later, the production of Brut cava began.

The Estate

The grapes used to produce the range of cavas, noble white wines and late-vintage sweet vinegar, are grown in the over 40 vineyards that surround the winery, the cellars and the ancestral home. The vines, with a high average age, produce high-quality, balanced grapes.

The NADAL Estate produces more grapes than it needs to cover all its wine, cava and vinegar-making requirements. This allows them to select the best varieties of grapes to produce the best wines.

At the Nadal Estate the indigenous varieties of green grape are grown: Macabeu, Xarel·lo and Parellada.

Macabeu has an excellent reputation for producing high-quality wines that can be used for creating cava – complex, well structured, with fresh and fruity aromas – and overripe due to the fungus, Botritys cinerea, which makes the grapes ideal for making noble sweet wines.

Xarel·lo gives pale wines with ochre tonalities, fruity, mature aromas and very voluminous in the mouth. A variety essential for the production of the cava that is made in honour of the founder, Ramon Nadal Giró, and the dry white crianza wine, Finca Boadella.

Parellada grapes produce very pale wine with greenish reflections, delicate, floral aromas and are very smooth and fine in the mouth. This grape variety is used exclusively to make cava.

Rosé cava is made from the Pinot noir variety.

A bird’s eye view of the estate

The guarantee of the high quality of our products is due to a great extent to the rigorous techniques used to grow the grapes at the Nadal Estate; the thorough knowledge of the over 40 vineyards, which make up the estate, the capacity of its soil to produce first-class grapes and our extensive experience in grape-growing, have allowed us to get to where we are today.

From our ancestors we have inherited experience and respect for nature. When we replant a vine, we do not disinfect the soil with chemicals, we use the traditional techniques: we work the soil, remove the roots and, for the following eight years, plant cereals (to oxygenate and reconstitute the soil); at least 5% of the total surface area of the exploitation are not cultivated: borders, paths, natural channels for rainwater… ; every five years we analyse the soil in order to add the right amount of fertiliser to ensure that the plants are balanced and produce the best grapes; we do not use herbicides to eliminate ‘weeds’ or pests. We prefer to use natural, traditional methods such as green pruning and controlling the yield of the vine instead of chemicals..

Nadal´s Productos The Guarantee of Our Products

In mid-August we carry out the first inspections to see how mature the grapes are. All the grapes produced by the NADAL Estate are harvested at their optimum stage of maturity.

At the start of September each year, a team of twenty pickers begin to select and monitor the grapes on the vine itself, if necessary, so as to ensure that each harvest is taken back to the winery as soon as it is ready, in order to extract the must at the optimum time. The fact that the winery in located on the estate allows us to transport the grapes quickly and thus ensure they are fresh and maintain all their properties.

The staggered ripening of the different grape varieties, first Macabeu, then Xarel·lo, and finally Parellada, allows us to harvest all the grapes from the 43 vineyards at their optimum stage of maturity.