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Priorat

Priorat is steep llicorella slate, where old Garnacha and Cariñena vines produce tiny crops and some of Spain's most concentrated reds.

Place
Priorat · Catalonia · Spain
Producers
50
Editorial basis
World of Wine subregion guide
Atlas locationPriorat · Catalonia41.28° N · 0.70° E
Appellations
Priorato, Comunidad de Cataluña · Montsant · Tarragona · Conca de Barberá · Costers del Segre · Terra Alta

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Producer profiles

Producers in Priorat

  • Altavins ViticultorsAltavins Viticultors makes red Terra Alta wines, including Almodí Negre, with manual harvest in boxes.
  • Bell Cros (Skoglund Wine Estate S.L.)Organic estate in DO Montsant, Tarragona, founded in 2017 by Swedish entrepreneurs Ann and Peter Skoglund, who sold their Swedish business to farm a Catalan valley. The founding wine, El Tracte, is named after the traditional handshake that sealed the purchase of the first vineyard from its previous owners.
  • Bodega Cal grauCal Grau farms 22 hectares of terrace-cut vine on llicorella slate between El Lloar and El Molar in Priorat, vinifying 26 separate parcels by hand across terrain steep enough to qualify as heroic viticulture.
  • Bodega NuvianaEstate winery in Belver de Cinca, Aragón, producing Cava by traditional method alongside a floral Chardonnay and an American-oak-aged Tempranillo-Cabernet red on a 3.4-hectare riverside property that doubles as a migratory bird corridor.
  • Bodegas VegalfaroOrganic Requena bodega making Cava and red wines from Bobal and Syrah under Spanish designations.
  • Bodegues AmetllerBodegues Ametller makes sincere, terroir-focused wines with an aim to make Priorat approachable for a wider audience.
  • Cara Nord CellerThree friends from Catalonia founded Cara Nord in 2012 on the north face of the Prades mountains, inside the Montsant appellation. Their three-wine range moves from a tank-aged white through two oak-aged reds, with Mineral del Montsant, a Carignan-led blend, as the estate's most serious bottle.
  • Celler Aixalà-AlcaitSmall Priorat family estate on llicorella slate, farming organically since 2005 and making two whites and two-plus rosés alongside reds in a region built around powerful red wine.
  • Celler ArdévolPriorat estate in Porrera farming ten hectares across three steep parcels from 400 to 500 metres, using organic and biodynamic methods; first wine released in 2000, now led by Max Ardèvol.
  • Celler Balaguer i CabréA Gratallops family cellar building its entire Priorat range from a single grape: Garnacha Negra in red, Garnacha Blanca in white, one vineyard per wine, all dry-farmed on llicorella schist.
  • Celler Cal Pla SL.Family-owned DOQ Priorat estate in the village of Porrera, farming 50 hectares of old-vine Carignan and Grenache across six parcels. Joan Sangenís shifted the estate from bulk to bottled wine in 1996; red wines rest in bottle for two years minimum before release.
  • Celler Carles AndreuEstate cava and still wine from Conca de Barberà, farmed by the Andreu family since the 18th century and bottled under the family name since 1991. All wines from 80 own-farmed hectares across six municipalities in inland Catalonia.
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  • Celler ComunicaOrganic Grenache and Carignan from a granite estate in Falset, aged on fine lees in stainless steel without oak.
  • Celler de CapçanesA village cooperative in DO Montsant, Catalonia, farming Garnacha Negra and Cariñena bush vines of up to 110 years on slate and limestone at 250 to 550 metres. Founded in 1933 and producing organic-certified still reds and whites alongside one of Spain's longest-running kosher wine lines.
  • Celler de L'EncastellA family estate in Porrera, DOQ Priorat, farming 10 hectares of llicorella slate since 1999 and producing Marge, a Garnacha-led red blend macerated, fermented and oak-matured to a dark, spiced, mineral profile.
  • Celler de l’EraCeller de l’Era is a family project at Mas de les Moreres in Cornudella de Montsant, making D.O. Montsant wines and the red Bri.
  • Celler de SanuiThe only Costers del Segre winery inside Lleida city, farming a single ten-hectare block of calcareous-clay ground on the Torres de Sanui estate. Two tiers: a fruit-led Tempranillo-Syrah-Merlot red and an oak-aged white blending Macabeo, Riesling and Muscat de Frontignan.
  • Celler el MasroigMontsant's largest cooperative, farming Carignan, Grenache, and Syrah on clay-rich soils from a village of 500 since 1917.
  • Celler GritellesCeller Gritelles makes DO Montsant wines from Macabeo, Grenache and Carignan in Cornudella de Montsant.
  • Celler Joan SimóCeller Joan Simó began making its own Priorat wine in Porrera in 1999, after generations of family viticulture that had supplied grapes to the local cooperative. Garnacha and Carignan lead vineyards in cooler Porrera and La Garranxa and warmer Bellmunt del Priorat.
  • Celler Mariol S LCeller Mariol in Batea makes Terra Alta single variety wines, including Cariñena Samsó Crianza, alongside vermouths.
  • Celler MasroigEl Masroig producer with Carignan at its core, old vine Les Sorts reds, white Grenache and DO Montsant vineyards.
  • Celler PiñolFamily winery in Batea making organic Terra Alta wines from Garnacha, Cariñena, Garnacha Blanca and Morenillo.
  • Cellers Can BlauCellers Can Blau makes dry red wines in Catalonia's Montsant Denomination of Origin from Cariñena, Syrah and Garnacha, linking the grapes to clay valleys, steep limestone slopes and dark slate.
  • Cellers Scala DeiHistoric Priorat producer in Escaladei, with organic vineyards, separate lot fermentation and wine aged in the monks’ seventeenth century cellar.
  • Cellers UnioCellers Unió is a Reus-founded Catalan cooperative connecting 186 smaller cooperatives and around 20,000 families with wines from Montsant, Priorat, Terra Alta, Tarragona, Catalunya and Cava.
  • Clos AlkioGratallops producer working old Garnacha and Cariñena by hand, with an ecological, dry farmed estate and a 2016 Cava Brut Nature.
  • Clos GalenaClos Galena makes Priorat reds in El Molar from llicorella soils, low yields and organic vineyard work.
  • Clos I TerrassesClos i Terrasses began when Daphne Glorian invested her life savings in 17 terraces outside Gratallops in 1988. Its red wines are Clos Erasmus and Laurel, farmed biodynamically since 2004.
  • Clos MogadorGratallops estate in DOQ Priorat, making an estate bottled red with biodynamic soil work and ageing in oak foudres and concrete tanks.
  • Clos Pachem Priorat DOQ Winery GratallopsClos Pachem makes low extraction Priorat reds from Gratallops, including equal Grenache and Carignan in Camí de la Mina.
  • Clos PonsClos Pons makes organic Costers del Segre wine in southern Lleida, with Algés showing fruit, acidity, minerals and a little wood.
  • Costers del PrioratOld-vine Garnatxa and Carinyena from Priorat's llicorella slate, fermented on native yeasts in a cellar carved into a Roman magnesium mine at El Molar, with a range built around village character and cool mineral focus rather than extraction.
  • Costers del SiuranaA founding Priorat estate that helped build the region's modern reputation from scratch, making mineral-driven reds from 50 hectares of old-vine parcels on a 13th-century property in Gratallops.
  • Dominio de la VegaSan Antonio de Requena producer of DO Cava and DO Utiel-Requena wines from high clay and limestone plateau vineyards.
  • Genium Celler, SLSix Poboleda families built a shared cellar in 2002 to bottle the Priorat they had always grown. Winemaker Roser Amorós ferments eight plots of Garnacha and Cariñena separately on llicorella schist, then blends by vintage assessment.
  • Giol PorreraFamily-owned winery in Porrera farming 11 hectares of terraced licorella slopes for Garnatxa Negra and Carinyena, producing 4,000 bottles a year from a rehabilitated spirit factory under a great-grandfather's name.
  • Gran ClosOld-vine grenache and carignan on Priorat's black slate, with a flagship red aged in French oak and a white from garnacha blanca and macabeo.
  • Mas d'en BleiA family-run Priorat estate in the Siurana river valley, with Grenache and Carignan at its red-wine core and a small White Grenache parcel behind Clos Martina.
  • Mas DoixPriorat reds from Poboleda: Grenache and Carignan from hand-worked old vines on llicorella slate.
  • Mas ForasterA family-run Montblanc estate making Trepat- and Macabeo-led wines from its own vineyards in Conca de Barberà.
  • Mas MartinetPriorat family project with a Falset winery in the Gratallops wine growing area, working native grapes with minimal intervention.
  • Pago de TharsysHigh-altitude Requena Cava: dry, Macabeo-led sparkling wines from ecological limestone vineyards and an 1808 underground cellar.
  • Portal del PrioratA southern Priorat estate where terraces and steep costers lead from a dark-fruited Garnacha–Cariñena blend to a single-vineyard Cariñena from vines planted in 1911.
  • Sangenís i VaquéFamily-made Priorat from Porrera’s steep llicorella slopes, built around Garnatxa, Carinyena, hand work and oak-aged reds.
  • SAT LA BOTERA CELLERA grower-member winery in Batea, Terra Alta, turning member-grown grapes into bottled whites, rosés and reds since 1986.
  • Terres de VidalbaA family-run Poboleda winery building Priorat wines from its own slate-rooted vineyards.
  • Tomàs CusinéTomàs Cusiné makes Costers del Segre wines from El Vilosell, including red Vilosell and Geol and Auzells, a white blend from the Comabarra mountains.
  • Venus La UniversalVenus La Universal is a 4-hectare biodynamic estate in Falset, Montsant, founded in 1999 by Sara Pérez and René Barbier Fils. Garnatxa-led blends across red, white, and rosé, fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in barrels, amphorae, and glass demijohns.

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