Priorat
Old vines on black slate — one of only two regions at Spain's top tier.
Priorat is a steep, remote corner of Catalonia where Carthusian monks planted vines in the 12th century. Phylloxera and emigration left it nearly abandoned until the late 1980s, when a small group of winemakers arrived to work its old Garnacha and Carignan vines on the region's unique llicorella slate. The wines they made — dark, mineral and concentrated — won international attention within a few years. Priorat became only the second Spanish region, after Rioja, to earn the top classification, DOCa (DOQ in Catalan). Old-vine yields here are among the lowest in Spain.
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What the region makes
Dense, dark and mineral: blackberry, liquorice and warm stone.
Village-level wines that highlight individual villages.
Worth knowing
Priorat and Rioja are Spain's only two regions at the top DOCa level.
The name comes from the priory of Scala Dei, founded by Carthusian monks in the 12th century.
Try this region if you like powerful, mineral reds.
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