Gramona

The Free Bacchus Story

Gramona gave up the word Cava. The family has grown grapes around Sant Sadurní d'Anoia since the 1850s and has put its own name on sparkling wine since 1921. In 2019 it left the Cava appellation with eight other houses for Corpinnat, a group it had helped found two years earlier. Every Corpinnat bottle has to come from organic grapes, picked by hand and made into wine on the estate.

The wine that explains them is Enoteca. Gramona's other sparkling wines rest on their lees, the spent yeast left in the bottle after the second fermentation, for anything from two years to about nine. Enoteca stays more than ten; the 2013 spent 140 months. That is stock sitting in a cellar earning nothing for over a decade, and what comes out tastes of pastry, hazelnut and cocoa, with bubbles so fine they seem to have melted into the wine.

Gramona has farmed by organic and biodynamic rules since 2010, ploughing with horses and making compost from the cows, sheep and chickens on its own farm, and Demeter first certified it in 2014. Its organic certificate, from the Catalan body CCPAE, runs to June 2028. Demeter Spain's register still showed a validity date of 31 March 2026 when we read it on 9 October 2026, with no renewal published. In 2015 the family founded Aliances per la Terra, a group of Penedès growers who farm the same way, and together they now work about 420 hectares, sixty-five of them the family's own.

The rocky ridge of Montserrat stands to the north, sheltering the vineyards in winter; it is the mountain behind the photograph at the top of this page. Today the fifth and sixth generations run the house: Jaume Gramona, his son Roc and his late cousin Xavier's son Leo.