Priorat Tour to 3 Small Wineries with Pick-Up Near Your Hotel
Welcome to a unique experience in the heart of Priorat, a region with some of Spain's most outstanding red wines. Discover Priorat, the only wine region near Barcelona...
Garnacha, slate and the five pioneers who changed Spanish wine
Spain's second DOQ wine region, producing cult-level old-vine reds from Garnacha and Cariñena on steep llicorella slate terraces across a handful of villages an hour and a half south of Barcelona.
Welcome to a unique experience in the heart of Priorat, a region with some of Spain's most outstanding red wines. Discover Priorat, the only wine region near Barcelona...
Walk among vineyards guided by a local in the unknown and unspoiled landscape of the Priorat wine region. Enjoy an easy half-day walk and savour the Priorat world-famo...
Winery tours in Priorat with tastings of organic wines produced through biodynamic and regenerative farming methods. A unique experience in Priorat. Tasting room with ...
Every vineyard, tasting room, wine bar and cellar we cover in Priorat, pinned. Click a pin for the page.
The iconic bottles that define Priorat.
Producer: Clos Mogador
Price: €55-75 at retail
Producer: Alvaro Palacios
Price: €400-900 at retail
Producer: Mas Martinet
Price: €45-70 at retail
Producer: Clos De Lobac
Price: €35-55 at retail
Producer: Clos Erasmus
Price: €150-350 at retail
Producer: Alvaro Palacios
Price: €70-120 at retail
A handful of the estates we send friends to when they are in Priorat.
A small artisan DOQ Priorat producer in Porrera, the Cariñena heartland, crafting wines from old-vine parcels on characteristic llicorella slate soils.
Signature: del-pont-vi-de-paratge
A small-scale DOQ Priorat producer in Torroja del Priorat working with Garnacha and Cariñena from characteristic llicorella slate soils.
Signature: massana-noya-vi-de-paratge
A DOQ Priorat producer working the llicorella soils of the Priorat comarca with Garnacha and Cariñena from steep terraced vineyards.
Signature: aspres-vi-de-paratge
Founded in 1979 by Rene Barbier, Clos Mogador is one of the five estates that revived DOQ Priorat with the celebrated 1989 harvest. The estate's Manyetes plot holds Vinya Classificada status in the DOQ Priorat classification.
Signature: clos-mogador, manyetes, clos-nelin
Alvaro Palacios established his Priorat estate in 1989 as one of the five founding producers of modern Priorat. His L'Ermita vineyard in Bellmunt del Priorat holds Gran Vinya Classificada status, the highest tier of the DOQ Priorat classification.
Signature: lermita, finca-dofi, gratallops-vi-de-vila, camins-del-priorat, manyetes
Founded in 1989 by Carles Pastrana as one of the five original Priorat pioneers. Winemaker Mariona Jarque leads production. Their fixed-coupage approach uses consistent vineyard parcels and blend percentages each vintage.
Signature: clos-de-lobac, miserere, kyrie
The epicentre of modern Priorat, where the 1989 renaissance began. Narrow streets, terraced vineyards and most of the region's top estates all within a few kilometres.
Quiet hilltop village with century-old Cariñena parcels on extreme-gradient costers, including the Gran Vinya Classificada Mas de la Rosa.
A peaceful stone village off the main wine route but home to one of the DOQ's most influential minimal-intervention producers and several old-vine parcels of extreme altitude.
A small village on the eastern edge of the DOQ, anchored by the L'Ermita hillside and the 125-hectare Mas d'en Gil estate, combining CAAE-certified organic farming with dramatic valley views.
Ruined Carthusian cloisters surrounded by high-altitude vineyards at the foot of the Montsant cliffs, where monks first brought wine culture to Priorat in the 12th century.
One of Priorat's more isolated hamlets, where the altitude and aspect push ripening later than in Gratallops, creating wines of distinct freshness alongside the region's characteristic intensity.
Peak wine-travel season in Priorat is spring through autumn, with harvest the standout window.
classified-growth and grand-cru estates require booking days to weeks ahead; smaller family domaines often take walk-ins midweek.
most estates open 10:00 to 17:00 by appointment, often closed Sunday and Monday.
tipping is not expected at tastings; buying a bottle from the cellar door is the customary thank-you.
If you only open one bottle, open Clos Mogador by clos-mogador. It is the wine most associated with Priorat.