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Wines of the Pla de Bages DO

Artés, Bages, Barcelona

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Wines of the Pla de Bages DO

Food and drink · Artés, Bages, Barcelona

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The Pla de Bages designation of origin protects the vineyards of 26 municipalities in the Bages and Moianès comarques, watered by the Cardener and Llobregat basins; the microclimate, sheltered by the Pre-Pyrenees and the Litoral mountain range, and the dry-stone terraces mark a landscape which the monks of the monastery of Sant Benet de Bages had already promoted since the 10th century. Artés, documented since the year 889 and with a fortified church predating the 6th century, is one of its centres and the only municipality in the Bages with a designation of origin for both wines and cavas. With a century-old cooperative, it produces reds from the sumoll variety and whites from picapoll, the comarca's native white grape.

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