![]() ![]() You can also combine the wine tasting with a diversity of mediterranean tapas, specifically selected to complement the wine offerings the best. To experience the different wines the secret Wine Cellar has to offer, book a unique wine tasting! Your host José will let you taste differrent flight selections and will give you all the inside information about the origins and flavours of the wines. The combination of the snow of the Andes mountains, the illuminating sun and the magic soil makes the taste of the selected wines unique. Therefore, he importes wines from the organic winery Solandes, located in the south of Mendoza, Argentina. To make the Dutch familiar with the great wines of Argentina he decided to start his own wine bussiness. The cellar is owned by José Belgerette, an Argentinian wine expert who fell in love with the Netherlands decades ago. When you enter the cellar, you will discover a lot of delicious wines from the New World. The only way to enter the cellar is trough the cute tiny bakery located above. Just behind Dam Square, this atmospheric Wine Cellar is hidden in the catacombs of the New Church (although built in the 15th century). But did you ever hear about a secret wine bar? Probably not… because no one knows ). 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.Lately, secret bars in major city’s are becoming a bigger and bigger trend. It was an experimental phase as there was hardly any information on how to deal with this grape. 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. 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. 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. ![]() 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. 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. 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. 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 20 th century, we started with the production of cava. ![]() Understanding the ecosystem of the vineyard and respecting it, thus we obtain wines that give MontRubí its unique character. Īt MontRubí we are committed to a way of working the field that is faithful to how our ancestors did. One of the most important enclaves of MontRubí, are the remains of the Hermitage of Sant Andreu de L’Avellà, from the 11th century, which we decided to recover together with the archaeologists of Arqueovitis, from that point, the entire estate can be viewed in 360º. We have been taking care of our farm for years to have a natural heritage that everyone wants to come and enjoy. In the town of L’Avellà, where MontRubí is located, there are the two wineries, the Casa Gran 1771 hotel, and the chalet, an architectural work from the end of the 19th century completely restored, and which houses the gastronomic restaurant, the summer Wine Bar and the winter Wine Bar, as well as the wine shop.įrom our vineyards, we harvest only certified organic grapes of native varieties of our area. ![]()
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