When I think of Spain I think of great Spanish culture, beautiful woman, and of course, great wine.
Hit me again Mr Winery tour guide
In the states, it’s tough to find the winery that gives you a warm feeling of family tradition dedicated to wine and their consumers. It is more, trying wine after wine without great explanation or what went into preparing that certain wine. As we say a lot after a night of festivities, “It’s like bar-hopping from one to the next.” However, my visit to Torrens Moliner, TM, proved to me that there is such thing as learning while drinking alcohol, wine in this case.
Torrens Moliner (DO Cava)
Being a visitor in Spain, I wanted to take advantage of something that is not easily accessible in the states and that is to try the wine that is made from this country. I have been able to do so by buying wine from local markets and grocery stores but just recently I had the opportunity to try wine from a very private and local winery in Catalunya. To be exact, they are located very close to Sant Sadurní D’Anoia in La Fortesa, where their new winery construction is almost complete.
Xavi Torrens Moliner
TM is a family owned winery that was started in 1986 and located in the heart of Sant Sadurni d’Anoia and has since stayed small and private. To put its size in perspective to other wineries, its only international consumers it has partnered with is Mexico, Switzerland, and of course Spain. That was astonishing to me since wineries tend to find consumers pretty quickly. Yet, when finding out what TM’s objective, this made all the perfect sense. As their mission statement states,”… We have opted to self-finance the projects we have undertaken, to keep the business as a dynamic, independent, constantly-evolving family company.” Only making 60,000 bottles of wine a year, additionally, making 9 different wines and cavas, they are committed to their family and goals.
Reserve & Gran Reserve
Having tried 2 of their cavas, Cava Reserve and Cava Gran Reserve, this company is on the path to do greater things. Not only making more wine throughout the year, but wine and cava’s that are delicious and to everyone’s liking. They have 3 different aged wines and each are easily identifiable by their unique colored cork stamps; white stamps mean 9 to 15 months of ageing, green meaning 15 to 30 months of ageing, and black meaning more than 30 months of ageing.
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With their new winery, in La Fortesa, it is sure to help TM expand their consumer base and begin to gain more recognition around not only in Spain but around the world. Their objective of being a family tradition style winery, their new location has just that. A beautiful establishment, they are easy to get in touch with, always making themselves available for any last minute winery visits, but most of all, their dedication to being connected with its consumers and family.
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Once they get their winery settled and rolling (taking advantage of the social media), expect big things with this winery. It is worth your time and wine tasting pleasures.
Jonathan Jewett, Wine Blogger for Wine Pleasures, jjay1218@yahoo.com
Here’s a video we took during our visit to Torrens Moliner. What were the two nibbles we had during the cava tasting? Email your answers to info@winepleasures.com and if you win you ‘ll get a special prize.
Torrens Moliner with their CAVA ’s products are going to be participating on the next WORKSHOP WINE PLEASURES (10 th to 12ve of February 2010) at the Barcelo Montserrat Hotel.
At the workshop, Hosted Buyers hold pre -scheduled business meetings and tastings with Iberian wineries of potential interest as well is TORRENS MOLINER.
These meetings have the dual objectives of discovering and selecting new limited production boutique wines and of cultivating new professional relationships.
Both Hosted Buyers and cellers are carefully selected by Wine Pleasures in order to ensure that both parties will find what they are looking for.
The Wine Pleasures Workshop Buyer meets Iberian Cellar will give buyers the opportunity to discover new wine suppliers not normally present in the large trade fairs, meet the winemaker in a highly personalised setting, taste the latest vintages, discuss imports, prices and timescales, discover new products and attractive labelling and packaging, and appreciate the excellence in quality – price. All this in a cost-effective, one stop opportunity to do so by meeting face to face in Spain with a wide range of quality wine makers concentrated in one convenient and enchanting venue for just two and a half days.
So if you are a Wine professional that is looking for a SPANISH WINNERY that elaborates a high quality Wine and Cava limited production, do not hesitate to contact us , or just come over to the Workshop, where you are going to be able to make a fine tasting of our products.
Torrens Moliner acaba de posar al mercat un nou Cava elaborat amb les varietats de sempre Macabeu, Xarel.lo i Parellada, juntament amb el preuat Chardonnay que li dóna l’acabat desitjat.Es tracta d’un Gran Reserva de l’any 2004, de llarga criança, producció limitada i numerada. Un cava ple de personalitat, equilibri i elegància.
Nova Bodega, nou Projecte, nou horitzó … Torrens Moliner , amb la voluntat de millora en el control del procés d’elaboració i qualitat del producte, ha traslladat les seves instal·lacions a la Finca de la família “Lo Capdamunt de les Planes de la Riba”, situada a la Fortesa, població pròxima a Sant Sadurní d’Anoia.El passat 1 de novembre del 2008, la família Torrens Moliner va inaugurar la nova bodega, gaudint de la companyia d’amics, clients i col·laboradors que han viscut de ben a prop la il·lusió i l’evolució del projecte de la nova Bodega. Més de 250 persones van gaudir de més de tres hores d’acte, amenitzat pels productes de Vins i Caves Torrens Moliner, podent visitar les noves instal·lacions.
Torrens Moliner, juntament amb quatre empreses catalanes del món de l’alimentació, ha posat en marxa un nou projecte engrescador, per cercar noves fronteres. Qualiterrania, és la marca creada per aquestes cinc empreses elaboradores de productes de primera qualitat de la dieta mediterrània, amb l’objectiu de poder donar a conèixer la cultura i gastronomia catalana arreu del món, presentant una oferta complerta i complementària de productes alimentaris : Vins i Caves, embotits, olis, formatges, ibèrics i plats preparats.
Torrens Moliner fidel als seus orígens i a la terra, acaba de plantar nova Vinya de Xarel.lo en una part de la Finca “Les Planes de la Riba”. D’aquesta manera Torrens Moliner aposta per la potencialitat de la gran varietat blanca autòctona del Penedès, per tal d’incorporar una personalitat superior a la ja preuada línia de Vins Blancs i Caves de la casa.
Sadurni d’Anoia and has since stayed small and private. To put its size in perspective to other wineries, its only international consumers it has partnered with is Mexico, Switzerland, and of course Spain. That was astonishing to me since wineries tend to find consumers pretty quickly. Yet, when finding out what TM’s objective, this made all the perfect sense. As their mission statement states,”… We have opted to self-finance the projects we have undertaken, to keep the business as a dynamic, independent, constantly-evolving family company.” Only making 60,000 bottles of wine a year, additionally, making 9 different wines and cavas, they are committed to their family and goals.
