OUR MOTHERLAND
Winemaking that emerges from the deepest roots, where the ties between the land and the people are so indissoluble that they make the winegrowing activity and work in the cellar provide an authentic sense of the passing of time.
Winemaking that emerges from the deepest roots, where the ties between the land and the people are so indissoluble that they make the winegrowing activity and work in the cellar provide an authentic sense of the passing of time.
From Montserrat to the Mediterranean, flanked by the Massif of the Garraf and the Prelitoral Mountain Chain, the Penedès spreads like a tapestry between sea and mountain bordered by the basin of the River Anoia to the north and the River Foix to the south.
In this depression of the land in such a marked way, the shaping of the different geological structures and the diversity of the soils, microclimates, altitudes and current exposures form at least three subzones which, differentiated between each other, offer enormous possibilities to produce wines of a very distinct singularity.
The old vineyards of our estate of Sant Sebastià dels Gorgs and the lands of the different subzones where we grow the AT Roca vines stamp the character and personality of each of our wines.
The genuineness of our land and the survival of our autochthonous varieties are, beyond the winegrowing inheritance of our ancestors, the distinctive and angular trait that shapes the landscape of the Penedès.
We believe in autochthonous varieties to produce unique and expressive wines, which is why we understand our task as a commitment to our grandparents and our children in order to preserve and strengthen the Winegrowing Heritage of the Penedès, producing wines exclusively with autochthonous varieties.
At AT ROCA we do not forget that the landscape, as well as being shaped by the climate, the orography, the soil and the plants, is also formed by people.
Our project also exists thanks to the synergies and active work of eight families of winegrowers, who with our complicity and experience try to extract the most authentic character of each of our plots.
This way of understanding winegrowing, supported by a theory of oenology adapted to each type of land, are our maximum guarantee to produce wines that are the expression, not only of their region, but also of the people that inhabit it.