MAS RODÓ

Vitivinícola

We all know the difficulties involved in the production of single-variety wines and complexity that consists in maintaining their quality year after year. But meeting this challenge lets us enjoy the authenticity of flavours and aromas of the grapes vinified with these criteria. MAS RODÓ, located in the Alt Penedès in Spain at 480m above sea level, only produces wines from the grapes of their own crops located on ventilated hillsides. Our estate offers three types of soil: stony, sandy limestone, and clay. With these characteristics and water stress, we make the vines get the maximum mineralization from the root, the soil and its living micro organisms, because, by concept, we don’t use any kind of herbicides.
The pruning work and production controls allow us to limit the yield to between 2,500 and 4,500 kg / ha depending on the variety and the age of the vines. All these enable us to produce single-variety wines with typical characteristics of the climate of the area, its altitude and terrain types. That is, produce wines with distinctive nature of the “Terroir”. This year we have produced three wines under our standards and commitment to quality.
 

MAS RODÓ Montonega - "A unique wine”

Our wine Montonega has been produced from the indigenous variety Montonega from Penedes, Parellada phenotype. This is a variety of very low production and for that reason it has been scarcely planted in the area. The properties of its small grapes endow a specific structure, which coupled with the elevation of the vineyard and its soil, boosts flavour and aromatic expression of the wine and provides a nice level of acidity allowing to maintain the quality of young wines for several years. Its personality and differentiation, together with its exclusivity due to the shortage of these vines, even in their place of origin, Penedes, allow us to ensure that our high quality wine is "unique of its kind," and is of very limited production.
 

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MAS RODÓ Merlot - “A high quality wine from the Alt Penedès "

The combination of our rocky soil, day to night temperature change at the elevation of 480 metres above the sea level, low and controlled production at optimum harvest maturity has allowed us to develop a rigorous Merlot, very traditional, balanced, with marked acidity, fresh and Mediterranean on the palate, where 9 months of aging in French oak aligns well with the fruit. Despite the acknowledged difficulty of obtaining a quality single-variety Merlot, our wine has been rated as 'impressive'.
 

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Features of our wines