Penedès Travel Guide
Rock-cut cellars, vineyards facing Montserrat, and sparkling wine aged twice the Cava minimum. 40 minutes from Barcelona.
Penedès: Why Corpinnat Isn’t Cava
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The exact 3-day route we filmed, mapped to the hour: 25 hand-picked spots, the four family estates from our documentary, and a short glossary that explains what's actually in your glass.
You get a savable Google Maps route, booking notes for every winery, plus web access and an offline PDF. Less than one tasting at the cellar door.
You get a savable Google Maps route, booking notes for every winery, plus web access and an offline PDF. Less than one tasting at the cellar door.
Skip the research.
Walk into the cellars that matter.
Penedès isn't a wine theme park. It's a working valley of family estates, small towns and vineyard roads. Most visitors come for Cava and leave without ever hearing the word Corpinnat.
We spent real time here, filming a documentary and sitting down with the families who make this wine. The Nadals, who have worked their land since 1510 and keep their bottles twenty metres down in the rock. The Llopart family, on a ridge facing Montserrat since a parchment of 1385. The Huguets of Can Feixes, whose estate was first recorded in 1400.
This guide is what came out of that. You get their Penedès, and you'll know exactly what you're drinking.
A look inside
We don't send you to the biggest cellar.
We send you to the families we'd go back to.
We send you to the families we'd go back to.
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Corpinnat was created so we could make sparkling wine, the traditional method, here, in Penedès, which I think is how it should have been from the start.
How do you get it?
The moment you buy, you get instant access to both the web version and a downloadable PDF. Read it online with every link and map live, or save the PDF to your phone so it works offline on the road between wineries.
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Instant access, no waiting - Web access and PDF
What you get inside?
Four chapters, built so you can follow our exact route or design your own.
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🎬 The Director’s Cut
The exact 3-day route from our film, hour by hour. Four family estates, lunch facing Montserrat, dinner at a six-table restaurant with a Michelin star. We tell you which visits run on weekends only and which need booking ahead, so you don't arrive at a closed gate. -
📖 The Location Library
25 hand-picked spots to build your own trip: eight Corpinnat estates, restaurants and wine bars, places to sleep in the wine country, and the history under the vines. We list what's worth your time, not everything that exists. -
💡 Insider Tips
How to get between wineries when somebody has to drive, what to wear in vineyard rows with no shade, when the leaves turn gold and when calçot season starts, and where you can and can't walk into the vines. -
📍 The Map
Every location in one place, one tap to open in Google Maps. Save the whole route to your own account before you leave home.
Who is this guide for?
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You want a trip that feels personal and unhurried, not a checklist of cellar tours.
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You want the planning done, but the trip to still feel like yours.
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You care who made the wine in your glass, and you'd like to understand Cava and Corpinnat before you taste them.
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You'd rather sit at a family estate's table than queue for a tour with forty strangers.
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You want every winery in Penedès listed. We curate on purpose.
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You won't drive and won't book a transfer. The estates are spread across vineyard roads.
When to go?
Penedès works all year, but the vineyard calendar changes it completely. Pick your season by what you want to see and taste.
- The vines:new buds and poppies from March to May, solid green through summer, orange, red and gold from late September into October.
- The harvest:the verema runs from late August into September, picked mostly by hand, with Corpinnat's own Festa de la Verema and Vilafranca's Festa Major in the same window.
- The winter table:calçots with romesco from November to April, and in early February the Tast de Vins Base, where each base wine is poured next to the sparkling wine it becomes.
Your weekend in Corpinnat country starts here
FAQ
Penedès is a wine region in Catalonia, about 40 minutes by car from Barcelona. Regional trains reach Vilafranca del Penedès and Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, but the estates sit on vineyard roads between the towns, so you'll need a car or a transfer to follow the route. The guide lays out your options.
Yes, or a driver. The wineries and restaurants are spread across small towns and vineyard roads, and local taxis aren't set up for hopping between cellars on a schedule. If nobody in your group wants to skip the tastings, book a personal transfer for the whole trip.
The Director's Cut is built as a three-day trip, Friday to Sunday, with two nights among the vineyards. The weekend timing is deliberate: some estates only open for visits on Saturdays and Sundays. For a shorter trip, pick two estates and a lunch from the Location Library.
Both a web version and a downloadable PDF. Read online with live links and maps, or use the PDF offline on the road.
It depends on what you want. Late September and October for the vineyards in full colour, late August to September for the harvest, November to April for calçots. The guide has a full seasonal breakdown.
Where prices are fixed, yes: hotel rates, tasting fees, tasting menus and tours. Many estates price visits by format and season, so for those we give you the booking route and what to book, rather than a number that will be out of date by spring.
It's a wine route, so it works best for adults. With kids, the museum, the Iberian site, a vineyard tour, and the human towers make for a lighter version. One of the hotels in the guide is adults-only.
Prefer it handled for you?
Don’t want to plan at all? Our concierge service can arrange the route, the bookings and the timing for you. The guide gives you the map.
