Celler de Capçanes in the Holy Land

In mid January, we presented our extended range of Kosher wines to our Israeli clients from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Flor de Flor de Primavera awakened a considerable amount of interest due to it being a monovarietal wine made from a hundred year old vines. This was the first time we had presented this wine in Israel.

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18 Montsant included in the Guía del Vino 2012 from ABC newspaper

Juan Fernández-Cuesta, wine critic from ABC newspaper in Spain, has included 18 wines from DO Montsant in between the 400 wines in Guía Vino 2012, the guide that this newsapaper publishes every year. Las September Juan Fernández-Cuesta visited Celler de Capçanes guided by one of our winemakers, Francesc Perelló, and he had the chance of tasting our range of wines.

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Capçanes on the road….

Capçanes presented recently at numerous presentations all over Germany their wine range. During September, October and November Jürgen Wagner, export manager and co winemaker at Celler de Capçanes showed our actual vintages in several German cities. This period was more busy than ever, personal contacts are essential. Winelovers around the world wants to meet the people behind the wines in person

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Celler de Capçanes Tasting at Palais Coburg

Jürgen Wagner, export manager and co winemaker at Celler de Capçanes was invited by Frank Smulders, Master of Wine, by Palais Coburg and by the Wine Academy of Austria to present our wines.

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Onda Cero Radio Interview in Tarragona

The magazine "The city" in Onda Cero Radio Tarragona dedicates an space of  20 minutes to talk about wines from our country. To close this 2011, they chose  Celler de Capçanes and two wines were the main characters: Mas Donís Rosat 2011 and the famous kosher Flor de Primavera 2009, a wine awarded with 95 points Parker. We did a little introduction about the history of the cooperative and how a catholic village gets involved with the jewish comunity and takes the challenge of ellaborating a kosher wine.

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Young Wines Exhibition in Barcelona

Year after year and after 20 years, Quim Vila organizes the Young Wines Exhibition in Barcelona. Wineries from all Denominations of Origen are invited to celebrate the party in the middle of the streets in the wonderful old part of the city. They just offered young wines, elaborated last vintage 2011 and just bottleded. Capçanes presented Mas Donís Rosat 2011, a beautiful cupage of Garnacha and Syrah explosive in fruite, colour and aroma.

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Article posted at the The Jerusalem Post Newspaper

Wine Talk: Jewish gain in Spain
By ADAM MONTEFIORE

Choosing the finest kosher wineries in the world is a common preoccupation of collectors of fine kosher wine. Those from Israel might nominate Domaine du Castel or the Yatir Winery. Those with a bias toward French wines may choose one of the French wineries that make occasional kosher cuvées, such as Château Valandraud or Château Léoville Poyferre. Americans may choose Covenant.

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Capçanes in China – a brief summary of the specialised press

Beijing Capital airport DM: …to feel the spanish sushine and aroma in the bottle, you can try Capcanes Lindsay Negre, a typical spanish wine from Catalonian, northeast Spain…Capcanes winery locates in the hidden hills. …. stony vineyard gives the wine rich mineral character….Capcanes Mas Donis Rosat with floral amora..enjoy its freshness after cooling…

Time Out Shanghai: Mas Donis Rosat…vibrant rosy pink in color, fruity aroma like strawberry… perfect for drink after cooling…

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End of the Harvest at Celler de Capçanes

Finally we finished harvest!

We organised a "little" paella for the farmers and  we introduced them the new website, and the new wines. The new front label of Costers del Gravet and Vall del Calas caused sensation, as they are real deeds of the farmers, 100 years old, from the vineyards of the wines.

The first 10 days we must admit were not that easy at all, but at the end it looks better than ever.

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Virgin wines organises its National London Wine Tasting 2011

More than 1.000 people attended the National London Wine Tasting on Saturday, from 11.30h until 16.30h at the Horticulture Museum, right in the city centre, to enjoy the wines that Virgin Wines is distributing in the United Kingdom. This was their seventh London tasting and the chance for the customers to try over 250 of the hottest new wines available anywhere. Mas Picosa, the new organic wine of our winery, Les Taules and Cal Siscon, the two wines designed specially for Virgin, were the selected wines.

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