Sarral is located in the middle of the Conca de Barbera, county rooted winemaking tradition.
The Roman remains found in Sarral certify the existence of this culture in which the wines were very important. But it was not until the Middle Ages that the cultivation of the vine will have a leading role. A distinguishing characteristic feature is the role played by the Cistercian monks of the temple and set to the region, which conveyed their experience. The cultivation of the vine took another giant step from the mid-nineteenth century. The export of wine and brandy to the north of Europe and the Americas became the vineyard in an almost exclusive cultivation. Phylloxera completely ruin the time of splendor. The misery woke creativity, farmers were associated and knew emerge with renewed push creating the first "Companies"; the collective effort to unify the work and get overcome a desperate economic situation, would be the embryos of agricultural cooperatives, which in Sarral begins to take root in the late nineteenth century with the creation of the League of agricultural workers, who became in 1907 in the Agricultural Union. Later in 1913, was constituted in the village other entity be called Winemakers Guild. In 1959 the two entities with the name of Sarral Wine Cooperative merged. The beginning of the development of champagnes and wines bottled during the early eighties (the construction of the first cava, for example, dates from 1984); subsequently were expanding and modernizing the facilities first with the elaboration of cavas, and a few years later, still wines, then followed with one of the peculiarities of the company: the wines of needle by natural fermentation, with one of the few plants making this sparkling wine we have in our country. The determined incursion of the Cooperative in international markets ten years later are other steps that this historic institution Sarral has gone up to become today, one hundred years after the founding -now name Sarral Wine and Credit Society, Covisal, SCCL - in one of the most prosperous and dynamic cooperatives of the Catalan wine sector, reference and pioneer in the implementation of a philosophy within the wine cooperative governing this business criteria and professionalized at all levels, from the vineyards to commercialization. With quality as main goal, the cooperative pays special attention to the environment and the continuity of the winegrowers in the area.
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