Harvest notes 2025

A humid, warm and growing vintage of the new Sumolls!

A warm and humid year brought us 714 mm of rainfall. The water restored life to the fields, and the vines grew with strength and balance. Harvest began on September 16th, with healthy vineyards full of promise. A dry winter gave way to a very rainy spring, which encouraged the growth of the new Sumoll vines and consolidated the replantings. The summer, mild and with some rain before harvest, allowed for slow and balanced ripening. Patience at harvest time has rewarded us with wines of good maturity, weight on the palate, and a clean, vibrant expression of Montmell.

This year we harvested the first Sumoll grapes, five years after planting the first vines. Despite their youth, they already show great potential and symbolize the return to the origin of a variety that gives its name to the estate — one that hadn’t been cultivated here for more than half a century.

Viticulture and Vinification

  • High-altitude/mountain vineyards. Montmell mountains
  • 100% organic agriculture
  • We work to recover biodiversity and improve forest ecosystem
  • Poorly developed, calcareous and stony soils
  • Mediterranean mountain climate
  • We recover local/traditional/historic/native varieties
  • We cooperate with local and vocational winegrowers. Standing up for the maximum price per kg of grapes in the region
  • We make minimal intervention wines, free from oenological additives during vinification – no more than 30 mg/l of sulphites in total
Plots of origin Finca de Can Sumoi

Plots of origin
Finca de Can Sumoi

Properties

Montmell mountains, Baix Penedès
Altitude: 600m

100% Montonega

Ancestral Method

Free from added additives
contains sulphites in the bottling process

Aging
in a bottle 4 months

Viticulture

Era and Els Bancals of Can Sumoi plots

40 to 60-year-old
vineyards

Poorly developed, calcareous and stony soils

Harvest, September 19th fruit day
hand-picked, using 2,500kg trailers

Vinification

Vineyard’s indigenous yeasts

Pressed
at low pressure

Stainless
steel tank and bottle fermentation

Analysis

ALCOHOLIC_DEGREE

10,5 %

TOTAL TARTARIC ACIDITY

6,1 g/l

Ph

3,19

VOLATILE ACIDITY

0,14 g/l

RESIDUAL SUGAR

<0,8 g/l

TOTAL SULFUR

30 mg/l

PRESSURE

3,5 atm

Ancestral Montònega

Ancestral bubbles that awaken smiles

We like to define this Ancestral Montònega as a fun and enjoyable sparkling: because it's fresh, it's tart and it's honest, but above all because it's easy to drink, despite being a more complex wine than it apparently seems.

So much fun that it can be enjoyed leisurely, whether sipping it relaxedly in the garden or sharing it over one of those spring meals, when the day gets longer, nature explodes, and life seems to be nicer than ever. With a short aging of 12 months in the bottle, it has a floral and white fruit touch that makes it special, different, and so pleasant that drinking it is always synonymous with having a good time.

THE GUARDIAN

“A spin-off project from the Catalan sparkling master Pepe Raventós, this naturally made “pet-nat” is a million miles from so much of the ordinary cava produced in the same region. It’s so distinctive and alive with soft foaming bubbles, preserved lemonand tarragon”. –

The 50 best wines for Christmas 2021, by David Williams - November 2021

WINE&SPIRITS

“He makes this wine without any additions, letting the fermentation start in tank, then finishing it in bottle. It’s a dry and savory sparkler with flavors of pink peach flesh and loquat skin. Bubbles brighten the notes of chestnut and green almond in the finish”. - Ancestral Montònega 2021

Summer Sparklers, by Joshua Greene – June 2022

WINE ADVOCATE

“Good freshness, mellow acidity and abundant but fine bubbles. It's clean and has notes of white fruit and flowers, Mediterranean herbs and a dry, mineral finish”.

(91/100 points)
2021 Can Sumoi Ancestral Montonega, by Luís Gutiérrez – September 2022

INTERNACIONAL WINE REVIEW

“The 100% Montonega of Can Sumoi displays a lovely mousse and aromas of apple and pear which carry over on to the palate”. - Ancestral Montònega 2021

Raventós i Blanc and Can Sumoi: New Releases, by Mike Potashnik - May 2022