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Region · Spain
Priorat
Usually known by its Catalan name Priorat (rather than the Spanish Priorato), this is a tiny, isolated wine region just inland from Tarragona in Catalonia, on the Mediterranean coast.
Barely heard of in the early 1990s, it emerged internationally late in that decade with a handful of exciting, highly sought-after wines, some of which upstaged even the most prestigious Riojas by costing four times as much.
Priorat boasts the top classification, DOCa (Denominación de Origen Calificada).
Key grapes
- Grenache
ClassificationSpain DOCa
- climate
- rugged, mountainous Mediterranean hinterland
- soil
- llicorella — distinctive stony black slate
- classification system
- DOCa — the top Spanish classification
- signature
- intense, inky, powerful reds from low-yielding century-old vines; blackberry, chocolate, licorice, mineral
- history
- 'new old' region — Roman-era vines, abandoned in the 1800s, reborn in the late 1990s
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