{"id":14057,"date":"2021-08-18T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=14057"},"modified":"2021-08-23T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:18:48","slug":"celler-bouquet-alella-tradition-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/celler-bouquet-alella-tradition-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Celler Bouquet d\u2019Alella: tradition and innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bouquet of Alella<\/b><\/a>, is located in the DO Alella. It is a winery located in one of the two farmhouses of the owners, the Masia Can Boquet, from the 15th century, in Gothic style, next to the town of Alella. The Cerd\u00e0 brothers are in charge of this estate that has been in the hands of the family for 14 generations.<\/b><\/h3>\n

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The Boquet family has been in charge of lands located in the Maresme and the Vall\u00e8s (DO Alella) for 5 centuries. Ten years ago, after seeing how the work done on the land was not valued, as the price of grape was very low, Toni Cerd\u00e0, viticulturist and winemaker, and his sister Teresa, economist, both grandchildren of a Boquet, decided to continue their father’s work of replanting vineyards and making -with the grapes grown in part of their land- wine, bottling and marketing it. This idea came to their minds after they observed how difficult it was to make a living from selling grapes and after realising that the future of the farm was in danger due to the strong urban pressure that the area supports because of its proximity to Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A romantic idea<\/b><\/h3>\n

Teresa Cerd\u00e0 explains that the project was born from the romantic vision of maintaining the family legacy of Can Boquet. In fact, they built the winery on the ground floor of the 15th century manor house, Can Boquet, which is surrounded by vineyards and from where you can see the sea, so present in this DO, denomination of origin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their production is small, with 35,000 bottles per year, which are mostly consumed in Catalonia, specifically in the counties of Barcelona and Girona. They only export a small part to Holland. “We have a very small production” – says Teresa, who adds that there is a lot of competition, and it is difficult to reach customers because there are good wines everywhere. Increasingly, however, house wines are becoming more popular. Despite this, the consumption of local wine needs more wide-spreading and understanding, because our job is not just to make good wines, but to take care of the territory. As my brother says, we are the gardeners of the region, because we maintain the territory and give shape to the landscape \u201d. It is easy to deduce that the name chosen for the winery, Bouquet, is a clear evocation of the family name Boquet, which was lost in the lineage, when, according to the Catalan tradition, the descendant having been a woman, a <\/span>pubilla<\/span><\/i>, their children stopped carrying her surname.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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