Mas Vilella joins Corpinnat with its first sparkling wines

Corpinnat, the private collective brand championing terroir-driven sparkling wines in Penedès, has welcomed a new member. Mas Vilella, Albert Jané’s estate in La Bisbal del Penedès (Tarragona), has until now focused exclusively on still wines, but is now entering the sparkling category.

Jané is making his sparkling debut with two cuvées aged for 18 months –the minimum required by Corpinnat– both sold under the Mas Vilella brand. They are a white made from Xarel·lo with small percentages of Macabeo (8%) and Sumoll (5%), and a 100% Sumoll rosé. Both are from the 2024 vintage, totalling 10,000 bottles. Production is expected to exceed 20,000 bottles from the 2025 vintage onwards, with slightly longer ageing. Prior to the second fermentation in the bottle, the two wines spend three months under lees in a combination of oak, concrete, and amphorae.

A sparkling Malvasía de Sitges is also in the pipeline, with a planned ageing period of between 30 and 60 months. Corpinnat’s regulations require members to include in their portfolio a vintage brut nature aged for at least 30 months and a second vintage sparkling wine (brut, extra brut or brut nature) aged for at least 60 months.

After Demost, Mas Vilella becomes the second sparkling wine project created within Corpinnat itself. It is also the first producer from Baix Penedès, and only the second based in the province of Tarragona after Mas de la Basserola in Pla de Manlleu, in Alt Camp.

Jané favours a distinctly Mediterranean profile in his sparkling wines that reflects the estate’s landscape of dry stone walls, carob, olive and almond trees, and aromatic herbs. “I'm looking for rich palates with medium acidity and well-integrated bubbles, almost like if I were producing a terroir-driven still wine,” he explains.

The Mas Vilella estate that Albert Jané inherited from his parents extends over 20 hectares, including 11 hectares of vineyards, and is dominated by a 16th-century farmhouse. The family’s winemaking roots go back to 1914, when his great-grandfather Albert founded a winery in the nearby village of El Vendrell. From 1984 onwards, Jane’s parents regularly produced brut nature sparkling wines under the Jané Ventura brand, a tradition now continued by Albert’s brother, Gerard Jané.

Albert Jané launched his own winery, Acústic, in Montsant in 2003, followed by Ritme in Priorat in 2010. He returned to Penedès in 2015 to take over the family estate. He continues to produce the iconic Cabernet-based Mas Vilella, which was created by his father, now blended with a touch of Sumoll. He also produces a Mas Vilella white made from Malvasía de Sitges. These three projects produce around 200,000 bottles a year.

With the addition of Mas Vilella, Corpinnat now has 23 members. Following the high-profile admission of Juvé y Camps earlier this year and the introduction of stricter entry requirements, the collective brand is currently auditing around eight prospective members.