Codorníu Winery

---

title: "Codorníu Winery" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1551-establishments-in-spain", "spanish-brands", "wineries-of-spain", "wine-brands", "buildings-and-structures-in-la-rioja"] description: "Spanish producer of cava sparkling wine" topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codorníu_Winery" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Spanish producer of cava sparkling wine ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox company"]

Field	Value
name	Codorníu, S.A.
image	Airline bottle cava.jpg
image_size	150px
image_caption	Benjamin sec Cava made by Codorníu
trading_name
native_name
native_name_lang
type	Sociedad Anónima
industry	Winery
genre
foundation	Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain ()
founder	Jaume Codorníu
defunct
location_city	Haro (La Rioja)
location_country	Spain
locations
area_served	Worldwide
key_people
products	Cava
aum
homepage
::

| name = Codorníu, S.A. | image = Airline bottle cava.jpg | image_size = 150px | image_caption = Benjamin sec Cava made by Codorníu | trading_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | romanized = | former type = | type = Sociedad Anónima | traded_as = | industry = Winery | genre = | fate = | predecessor = | successor = | foundation = Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain () | founder = Jaume Codorníu | defunct = | location_city = Haro (La Rioja) | location_country = Spain | locations = | area_served = Worldwide | key_people = | products = Cava | production = | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | aum = | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = | footnotes = | intl = | bodystyle =

Codorníu () is the oldest and second-largest producer of Cava, the Spanish traditional method sparkling wine. Founded in 1551 near Barcelona, it is one of the oldest companies in Spain and one of the oldest wineries worldwide.

History

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Codorniu_-_Gate_1.jpg" caption="Gates leading to Codorníu winery"] ::

The Codorníu family’s wine business goes back to the middle of the 16th century. A document of that period states that the family had several machines and implements relating to the wine industry. In 1659 Anna Codorníu married Miquel Raventós and the families, each with a long wine tradition, were united. Years later, in 1872, Josep Raventós produced cava for the first time in Spain using the “traditional method” and established a completely new industry in the Alt Penedès region. The Codorníu cellars at Sant Sadurní d'Anoia were built on the orders of Manuel Raventós between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century (1895–1915). He chose the renowned Catalán architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch to design the facility. At that time Codorníu was producing about 100,000 bottles of cava per year, and the size of the new structure seemed overly grandiose. The location of the winery, then some distance from the road and the railway line, was also unusual for the time. Manuel Raventós, however, was insistent that the family winery should be close to the vineyard, as he was aware that such proximity would be the key to improving the quality of the wines. Nowadays, Codorníu continues to control the production process of all its cavas from vineyard planting to finished product. The winery has modern installations and equipment.

Awards and honors

In 1976, the Codorníu cellars at Sant Sadurní d'Anoia were declared a "National Monument of Historical and Artistic Interest" by King Juan Carlos I.

References

References

1. (2024-05-09). "Codorniu's "cava" in China". Routledge.
2. "Official site".
3. "Official site".

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::