Juvé y Camps

Bodega Juvé y Camps is one of Spain’s most venerable wine producers. The company's story began in 1796, when Penedès vintner Joan Juvé Mir began producing wine for local consumption. After overcoming the phylloxera crisis, the first Juvé y Camps sparkling wine was made in 1921 at the family estate in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia. From the 1940s to the 1960s, the company focused on improving production processes and increasing the vineyard surface area. In the 1970s, the Juvé y Camps winery launched two of its best-known Cavas from Penedès: Gran Juvé & Camps and Juvé & Camps Reserva de Familia, which helped to consolidate its reputation in the international market.

During the following decades, the company built a new winemaking facility equipped with state-of-the-art technology, introduced a new product line of organic still wines and embarked on the project of converting the estate vineyards to organic farming, an ambitious endeavour successfully completed in 2015. All that hard-work definitely paid off, for nowadays bodega Juvé y Camps is widely recognized as the leading DO Cava producer of Premium Cava and Gran Reserva Cava.

The main estate vineyard of Juvé y Camps is called Finca Espiells. Located in the Alt Penedès area and composed of clay-limestone soils, Finca Espiells has 200 hectares under vine between 180 and 245 metres of altitude, mostly planted with the traditional varieties Xarel·lo – the flagship variety – and Macabeo, and also some Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The two top-shelf Cavas of bodega Juvé y Camps, the varietal Xarel·lo Juvé y Camps La Capella and the varietal Pinot Noir Juvé y Camps La Sibèria, both of which are Cavas de Paraje Cualificado, are sourced from two exceptional lieux-dits in Finca Espiells.

Located south of Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, the La Cuscona estate has 17 hectares of limestone soils where the Macabeo variety shows a distinctively fresh and mineral edge. Finally, the Mediona vineyard, located 500 to 750 metres above sea level, in an area with rocky soils where the Mediterranean climate shows a definite Continental influence, produces high-quality grapes of Parellada, the third of the Cava traditional varieties.

In addition to Spanish sparkling wines, the product portfolio of the Juvé y Camps winery is comprised of still wines, which are sold under the label Finca Espiells. All the wines are vinified at the Espiells facilities, and the sparkling wines are aged in the family cave in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, which has six levels of underground galleries with a cellaring capacity up to 12 milion bottles. The firm currently makes 3+ milion bottles per year.

Both the Juvé y Camps and Finca Espiells brands are part of J&C Prime Brands, a holding company controlled by the Juvé family that also owns bodega Pagos de Anguix from Ribera del Duero.

• Year of foundation: 1796
• Address: Sant Venat, 1
• City: Sant Sadurní d’Anoia
  
• Province: Barcelona
• Zip code: 08770
  
• Country: Spain
• Phone number: 34 938 911 000
  
• www.juveycamps.com
• Guided visits? Yes
• Wine tourism services? Yes

Designation of origin:

Cava, Penedès, Ribera del Duero.

Red wine varieties:

Pinot Noir, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon.

White wine varieties:

Xarel·lo, Macabeo, Chardonnay, Parellada, Malvasía de Sitges, White Grenache, Sauvignon Blanc, Moscatel de Alejandría, Gewürztraminer, Viognier.