Ramon Jané

Toni Carbó and Ramon Jané, both born and raised in Penedès, Catalonia, have been friends since they were 15 years old. They both grew up among the vines, as did their fathers and grandfathers. Their parents and grandparents sold grapes to big companies in the area, big wine producers who turned them into bulk wines and cava for export. Ramón and Toni started working in their parents’ vineyards after completing their studies in Oenology. From 2002, they turned their restlessness into experimentation from their garage. Every year they made a 300-litre barrel of their own wine, researching, testing, adjusting, playing with different grape varieties.

In 2006, they decided to stop selling their grapes for bag-in-box supermarket wine. Both Toni and Ramon and Mercé (Ramon’s wife) have vineyards in different locations from their own families. In recent years, the wines of all three have been given their own labels to emphasise their origins more. Mercé’s wines under the “Mas Candí” label, Ramón Jané under his own name, and Toni and his wife Anna under “La Salada”, now from their own cellar.

The Jané family has been growing grapes in the Penedès for generations. Until 2006, these grapes were sold to the major cava producers in the region. When Ramón took over the vineyards, he started producing organic cava. Soon he went a step further: in addition to Cava, he started making still wines from the local grape varieties with minimal intervention.

Today the wines are completely natural. Pure grape juice from local varieties such as mandó, sumoll, malvasia, xarel.lo and parellada, fermented wild and bottled without added sulfites.

Through knowledge about his vineyards, his land, the history of his ancestors and a healthy dose of perseverance, Ramón succeeded in producing wines that really show the terroir and history. He has revived almost extinct indigenous grape varieties and the wines are now on the winelists in well-known restaurants all over the world.

Due to the fertile Mediterranean soil with alternating clay and lime, the wines are ripe and concentrated. The proximity to the Mediterranean Sea gives the wines freshness and makes them extremely drinkable. Wines with a Catalan character.