FINCA NADAL DE LA BOADELLA – Harvest 2025
At Finca Nadal de la Boadella, the 2025 vinatge has represented a turning point. After years of adaptation and resilience, the vines have regained their vitality and rewarded us with grapes of extraordinary quality.
Climatic conditions have played a decisive role
- The annual record of 625 liters of rainfall in 2024 marked the beginning of the recovery of the usual rainfall pattern.
- Autumn brought gentle and steady rains, delivering 215.5 liters to the soil. Temperatures gradually dropped month by month, with the first moderate frosts not appearing until December 16th.
- Winter remained wet, with record rainfall levels in some areas. Seasonal temperatures, apart from the few and mild frosts, encouraged a very regular budburst of the vines in early April.
- Overall, between September 1, 2024 and August 31, 2025, a total of 750 liters were recorded, confirming the good hydric recovery of the cycle.
- But the summer of 2025 brought contrasts. June was exceptionally warm, with temperatures more typical of July. And, paradoxically, July became the rainiest month on record: 200.3 liters per square meter, far surpassing the previous record from 1993 (89.2 liters) in a month that rarely exceeds 30 liters.
- On Saturday, July 12, a DANA (isolated high-altitude depression) unleashed torrential rains that caused the Foix River to overflow: in Vilafranca del Penedès, 175 liters fell in just over two hours, and in our Torrelavit estate, 101 liters.
August 18 — the start of the 2025 harvest with the Corpinnats
Falling on a Monday, we began harvesting the old Macabeo vineyards. The vines have regained their vigor and vegetative balance, though yields remain very small.
On Tuesday, August 26, it was time to harvest the Xarel·lo, with a fairly generous crop yielding fresh, sweet, and flavorful musts. And on September 15, with the Parellada, we entered the final stretch of the Corpinnat trilogy: grapes with low yields but with good balance and concentration of sugars and acids.
It is also worth noting that this year’s Corpinnat harvest marks a chapter of transition, being the penultimate vintage in which we use the Pinot Noir variety for Nadal’s rosé sparkling wines. In 2027, this variety will give way to Monastrell, allowing us to craft 100% of our wines and sparkling wines from historical Penedès varieties.
Patience and precision to obtain the white Xarel·lo wines
The Xarel·lo harvest destined for our Nadal X Collection White Wines produced musts with a perfectly balanced sugar concentration. We had to wait until September 2 to preserve the full character of these wines—body, complexity, and mouthfeel.
Two harvests that will define our estate’s sweet white wines
As for the late-harvest Macabeo, two pickings were carried out for different purposes: the first, on September 8, for our expedition liqueurs; and the second, a few weeks later, with an exceptional sugar concentration of 399 g/L, destined for the production of a sweet wine that will age in barrels and tanks over the coming decades.
Patience also led us to wait until September 25 to harvest La Carretera vineyard, yielding a Malvasía de Sitges whose ripeness already hints at elegance and voluptuousness. This will allow us to produce the fourth vintage of our new sweet wine, soon to be released with the 2022 harvest.
The 2025 harvest offers a vivid varietal expression
The 2025 harvest has symbolized a return to balance after years of adaptation. The vineyard has regained its natural rhythm and reminded us that patience always brings its reward.
For Nadal, this harvest is not only the result of a climatically singular year, but also a living example of how, by listening to nature with respect and perseverance, each variety expresses the best of itself — and time gives back what the earth preserves.
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