More winery movements in Penedès: Corpinnat extends to Baix Penedès with the incorporation of a new winery

La Bisbal del PenedèsThe Corpinnat sparkling wine brand extends for the first time to Baix Penedès: from July 1st, the Mas Vilella winery, owned by producer Albert Jané, will begin to label and market the two sparkling wines it produces, a rosé and a white, under the Corpinnat name. “I asked to be able to join Corpinnat in 2024, when I started producing them because my philosophy aligns with it, which means hand-harvesting, organic vineyards, integral winemaking, long aging, commitment to historical varieties, owned vineyards or long-term contracts with a minimum guaranteed price for the grape grower, and annual external audits,” explains Albert Jané, who adds that he will sell each of the two sparkling wines for twenty euros.

The name Mas Vilella refers to the family farmhouse, where Albert had worked and lived with his father as a child. “When my father died, in 2015, I acquired it, even though, since 1996, I had always been going there, especially on weekends,” says Albert Jané, who explains that the singularity of the old vineyard, with a landscape dotted with stone walls, terraces, with wild palm trees, all located at three hundred meters high and from where you can see the sea, is what he wants to convey to the two sparkling wines. The rosé is a monovarietal of sumoll, while the white Mas Vilella is a blend of xarel·lo, macabeu, and sumoll. “All my effort and philosophy is to convey this described landscape, that of Mas Vilella, to the glass,” says Ventura, adding that the first two sparkling wines are released with more than eighteen months of aging, which are the minimums set by the Corpinnat regulations.A monovarietal of malvasia, the sparkling wine of the future

For the future, the idea he is working on is to expand production with new sparkling wines, specifically with a single-varietal Malvasia de Sitges, and he would also like to increase production. "Between the two sparkling wines, they make twelve thousand bottles, but I would like to increase it to twenty thousand," he points out.Regarding the future of Penedès in general, Jané opines that “it is a territory threatened by the pressure of the surrounding cities, which is why preserving the vineyard and producing quality sparkling wines is the best we can do to believe in the territory”. Jané also adds that acquiring a Corpinnat or a wine from the DO Penedès is betting on uniqueness “just as we would with the purchase of a French small vigneron; you buy landscape, uniqueness and emotions, which are what our vineyards convey”.The producer recounts that he had not made sparkling wines for twenty years, and when he returned to it in 2024, he was clear that he had to enter them into Corpinnat. Before all this time, Albert Jané has been making wines in the DO Montsant (Acústic celler) and in the DOQ Priorat (Ritme celler). His two eldest children, Paula and Jordi, work on all the winemaking projects.With the entry of Mas Vilella, Corpinnat adds twenty-three wineries in Penedès, with a total of more than six million bottles. Currently, the territory is experiencing a moment of intense debate with three sparkling wine producing brands: DO Cava, Clàssic Penedès, and Corpinnat for a small territory. In fact, the DO Penedès has taken steps to incorporate the Corpinnat brand within its designation of origin. For its part, the DO Cava, with one hundred and ninety million bottles, has just debuted a regulatory board. Last April, a historic winery of the DO Cava, Juvé & Camps, left the designation of origin to also join Corpinnat.