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Cellar

Cooperativa de Gandesa

  • Foundation year: 1919
  • Number of cooperative members: 295
  • Total vineyard area: 1000 ha.

History

On 19 February 1919, José Maria Sierras, founder and first chairman of the cooperative, and Jaume Fontanet, member of the board, commissioned the architect César Martinell, a disciple of the great architects Josep Puig i Cadafalch and Antoni Gaudi, to construct the Bodega Cooperativa de Gandesa, then called the Gandesa Agricultural Cooperation Union.

The section of the bodega used for winemaking was completed in January 1920, and the oil mill in November of the same year. This so-called wine cathedral has always perfectly combined architecture with the functionality that growers need to make wine.

The structure of the modernist building is based on the Catalan vault, a traditional system from Catalonia that is lightweight yet very strong. The size of the vault also determined the type of material used, from solid brick to hollow brick or thin tiling. With more than one hundred years of history, the Bodega Cooperativa Gandesa still looks towards the future, living in the present and retaining all the best of its past.

Profile of wines

The winery has vines that are almost one hundred years old, for varieties such as Morenillo and Garnacha Blanca, and fifty years old, in the case of Cariñenas, while there are also younger vineyards and more modern varieties such as Syrah or Cabernet.

Its wines use Garnacha Blanca, Macabeo and Moscatel for whites, and Garnacha Tinta, Cariñena (Mazuelo), Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah for reds. When it comes to characteristics, the wines are complex, mineral, fleshy and glycerolly due to the climate (a combination of very cold winters with very hot and dry summers), the very low rainfall, and a very special soil (clayey-calcareous).

Awards and accolades

Vinari de Plata 2020 - Somdinou Blanco Joven 2018 Vinari de Plata 2020 Pureza Edición Centenario 2016 Vinari de Plata 2020 Somdinou Mistela Wine Guide of Catalonia 2021 Pureza Macabeo, 9.69 pts Pureza Morenillo 9.68 pts Mistela Blanca Somdinou 9.54 pts Somdinou Blanco Crianza 9.53 pts

DO's 

DO Terra Alta

1919 Crianza Bag In Box 5 L

14.50 €
Red wine

Mil nou-cents dinou (1919) evokes the origins of the Gandesa Cooperative, built that same year. It is a crianza red wine marked by the quality of the DO Terra Alta and made with red Grenache and Carignan obtained...

1919 tinto Joven bag in box 5 L

10.33 €
Red wine

Mil nou-cents dinou (1919) evokes the origins of the Gandesa Cooperative, built that same year. It is a young red wine marked by the quality of the DO Terra Alta and made with red grenache, carignan and syrah...

Puresa Vi Dolç Blanc Brisat

14.88 €
Fortified

Pureza is the range of signature wines from the Cooperativa de Gandesa. Made with grapes from old vines with an age of over 50 years, with some reaching 80 years. Pureza expresses the utmost identification of the DO...

Puresa Vi Ranci

14.88 €
Fortified

An exceptional rancid wine, made with lees over 50 years old and aged in the sun for 10 years. Pureza is the range of signature wines from the Cooperative Gandesa, made with grapes from old vines with an age of over...

Somdinou Blanc

5.12 €
White wine

Somdinou evokes the origins of the Cooperativa Gandesa, built in 1919. The name reflects the fact that the members joined forces to build the key to the future. Wines influenced by the DO Terra Alta soils, using...

Somdinou Blanc Fermentat En Bóta

9.30 €
White wine
Peñin 91

Somdinou Blanco is a Garnacha Blanca wine made from nineteen specially selected old vines, which give the project its name. This is one of the most iconic wines from the Cooperativa Gandesa.

Somdinou Negre

5.54 €
Red wine

Somdinou evokes the origins of the Cooperativa Gandesa, built in 1919. The name reflects the fact that the members joined forces to build the key to the future. Wines influenced by the DO Terra Alta soils, using...

Somdinou Negre Criança

8.55 €
Red wine

Somdinou Tinto is a red wine made from nineteen specially selected old vines, which give the project its name. This is one of the most iconic wines from the Cooperativa Gandesa.

Terralta Vermut

5.99 €
Vermouth

Although vermouth is a drink typically of European origin, with this Terralta vermouth you'll discover a more personal version rooted in the territory. The Cooperativa de Gandesa makes it with Garnacha Blanca grapes...

Vi Ranci Dolç Somdinou

8.35 €
Sweet rancio wine
Peñin 91

Rancio wines are vins de liqueur which, far from going off or turning sour due to the effect of oxygen, turn rancid. What favours this positive oxidation is their high natural alcohol content and the high sugar...

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