Introducing Corpinnat – a complex tale

Ferran untangles the turbulent recent history of Catalan sparkling wine. His tasting notes on wines from this new group of producers will be published tomorrow.

Wednesday, 1 January 2020
The nine members of the Corpinnat sparkling Catalan wines

Corpinnat is surely going to be a name that will soon resonate with those who love good sparkling wine.

Corpinnat is the new producer group, or collective brand, of Catalan sparkling wine that combines two concepts: Cor (heart), referring to the place where the first sparkling wines of Spain began more than 130 years ago; and Pinnat from the Latin word Pinnae already documented in the tenth century as Penetense that today gives its name...