Many consider Raventós i Blanc to be one of the finest, if not the finest, producer of sparkling wine in Spain-and beyond. It’s always a pleasure to sit down and catch up with twenty-first (!) generation proprietor Pepe Raventós, especially when the cameras are rolling…
While we at Skurnik Wines fondly-and somewhat jokingly-- refer to Pepe Raventós as ‘The Prince of the Penedès’, it’s hardly even a joke. Pepe’s family has been farming the Penedès Valley for over five hundred years, and for over 150 of those years, Raventós-surnamed pioneers have been chief protagonists in developing the Penedès Valley into one of the world’s leading sparkling-wine regions. All the more shocking, then, when Pepe abandoned the Cava appellation in 2012 to blaze his own path of glory. With years of organic farming, top-quality fine-tuning, and patient lees aging under Pepe’s belt, the wines at Raventós i Blanc (and his sister property of Can Sumoi in the high mountains of the Catalan coast) have simply never been better. Recently we caught up with Pepe for a wide-ranging conversation on all things Raventós-enjoy!