Articles

Priorat’s Vi de Vila takes on Croatia

by  |  04-03-2025

When you’re about to give a talk at what’s been billed as, “the masterclass of the year in Croatia”, it would be a lie to say it didn’t feel a little daunting. Thankfully, when said... more »

Vall Llach’s journey of Idus to Priorat

by  |  20-02-2025

I often look to “Fight Club” given that it is immensely quotable, even in the context of wine despite not a glass of the grape stuff being drunk during the film: “We’re the middle children... more »

How to understand any DOQ Priorat vintage

by  |  30-10-2024

One can’t know every wine in the world no matter what may be claimed on social media. Even knowing a great many of the regions of the world is tricky. This is why critics in... more »

Vall Llach’s “Nit del Poble 2024”

by  |  29-07-2024

If there’s one thing a small, intimate wine region such as Priorat needs, it’s small, intimate events, which are a great excuse to visit the region, and ideally have a great deal of fun at.... more »

Vall Llach – Embruix 2021

by  |  31-07-2023

While compiling this year’s lengthy Priorat report, I realized that I’ve tasted Vall Llach’s Embruix wine a good number of times. In fact, it would probably my most-tasted wine from Priorat with the exception of... more »

Best Catalan wines of 2022

by  |  12-12-2022

Here we find ourselves bumbling into the end of the year and, as I’ve done in past years, it’s time to take a look at the best wines in Catalunya that I’ve tasted in 2022.... more »

A Mediterranean exchange, Priorat on Hvar

by  |  04-11-2022

“Well, we like our wines strong here.” It was a statement that I was to hear in various forms during a recent trip to the island of Hvar on the coast of Croatia. In this... more »

A deeper look at DOQ Priorat 2019

by  |  17-03-2022

Whenever I can, I put together special tastings upon request in Priorat. They’re often for those visiting who want to sate a general wine curiosity or for dig deeper into a specific theme. In the... more »

The rebuilding of Priorat’s Vall Llach

by  |  27-10-2021

As was reported back in the middle of January of this year, a historic snowstorm crushed the roof of Vall Llach’s main production cellar, destroying the building in the process. In an update to the... more »

DOQ Priorat’s first “Grans Vinyes Classificades”

by  |  29-04-2021

DOQ Priorat has officially announced the first wines to be released under the “Gran vinya classificada” scheme by certifying: Mas de la Rosa of Vall Llach, 1902 – Tossal d’en Bou of Mas Doix, and... more »