Familia Torres founded its winery in Vilafranca del Penedès in 1870, 150 years ago, but its roots in the winegrowing traditions of Penedès date back to the 16th century. Five generations have carried the family business forward, passing on their passion for wine culture from parents to children – a passion steeped in respect for land and tradition, and a firm belief in innovation. Today the winery focuses on wines from unique vineyards and historical estates, as well as the recovery of ancestral varieties, which could provide long-term solutions. Since 2008, Familia Torres has taken active steps to combat the climate emergency, implementing adaptation and mitigation measures to reduce its carbon emissions. Familia Torres has a historical connection to Penedès, Conca de Barberà, Priorat, and Costers del Segre, but now its presence extends to vineyards and wineries in preeminent Spanish wine regions – Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Rueda, and Rías Baixas – and in Chile and California. It is a member of Primum Familiae Vini, an association representing twelve of the oldest and most prestigious wine families in Europe.
Bodegas Muga is a family-run firm founded in 1932 by Isaac
Muga and Aurora Caño. The first wines were made in an
underground cellar, until in 1968 they decided to set up their
own winery in a beautiful old 19th-century town-house situated
in the emblematic train station area in the town of Haro.
Its outstanding feature is that it always uses the finest materials,
combining tradition with the latest advances in winemaking
so as always to give its wines the very best quality without
losing authenticity. Indeed, with its own on-site cooperage
with one Master Cooper and three assistant coopers, it is
the only winery in Spain making all its vats and barrels. The
winery remains true to traditional winemaking methods such
as racking the casks by gravity and fining the wine with fresh
egg whites.
In allying the purest, time-honoured, family traditions with
cutting edge wine-making technology Bodegas Muga has
successfully preserved its identity as a winery with individual
personality and character.