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young wine tasting Gratallops DOQ Priorat visit winery From 9 to 15 November, we'll be part of the Catalan Wine Week! Our activity includes a visit to the winery with tasting of our young 2020 wine.

What is #SetmanaViCatalà?

The Catalan Wine Week presents and promotes wines of Catalonia throughout its geographic area. Being the annual festival of Catalan wines, this event brings together a whole set of activities throughout the Catalan territory with one great common goal: to offer a taste of the immense variety and richness of the wine industrry.

wine tastings in Priorat with the new measures to stop the covid-19 cases in CataloniaSummary:
  • Winery tours continue with maximum capacity of 6 people per group.
  • Priorat’s restaurants are selling takeaway food. Let's support the horeca sector!
  • You can eat inside hotels and other accommodation establishments.
  • Celler Devinssi's visitors can enjoy a picnic in our vineyard (in the lap of nature).
  • Please read the updated safety measures.
  • Please book your wine tour TWO DAYS BEFOREHAND
From 15 October 2020, new measures to stop the COVID-19 growth in Catalonia are applied for 15 days. 

[caption id="attachment_4109" align="alignright" width="300"]Spains best wineries and wine tastings, visiting DOQ Priorat winery, wine travel with Celler Devinssi Wine tasting in the vineyard at sunset in Priorat[/caption] Spoiler: According to TripAdvisor, among Catalonia's top 10 wineries, three belong to DOQ Priorat! How about a wine tasting in the vineyards? More good news! We already have the official TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Award here. Previously, this award was called Certificate of Excellence. TripAdvisor is one of the world's most popular web portals providing information for travelers (according to the Statista report), where a significant part of the content is based on user feedback on the destinations they have visited, accommodation, restaurants, etc. Wine travel also has good coverage there.

[caption id="attachment_4129" align="alignright" width="300"]grape harvest DOQ Priorat wine travel Covid-19 mildew @frocatax[/caption] Definitely, 2020, baptised by Hurricane Gloria, will forever be etched in our memory. The disastrous effect of the Covid-19 has been noticed here in  Priorat. Three months with no tourists, with no people in the street. Of course, with a minimum risk of virus rebound... Learn more... We're lucky to have been able to take care of the vineyards: whole spring spent alone with nature, with an uncertain future, toon... This year, the vineyards have needed a lot of human presence... The endless spring rains have caused the plague called mildew to spread throughout the vineyards: a fungus that dries the grapes... Learn more...  We have had some losses of Carignan (Samsó) and Red Grenache, but if we zoom out to the DOQ Priorat level we have no right to complain. The careful dedication during the most complicated season in terms of weather and epidemiology and a some luck have made this 2020 grape harvest possible: Grenache and Carignan in very good condition, healthy and juicy Cabernet Sauvignon... Meanwhile, after a dry and sunny august, the harvest has been somewhat early and very dynamic.

[caption id="attachment_4085" align="alignright" width="300"] @frocatax[/caption] Many visitors ask to taste wines paired with local products. Over time, observing how this experience works, we’ve come up with the exact list of ingredients you generally like. Here they are: fuet, jamón, cheese, Arbequina olives, pa amb tomàquet i oli, nuts. Now,...

[caption id="attachment_4047" align="alignright" width="300"] @frocatax[/caption] While the world keeps contending with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, Priorat has reached phase 3 of the de-escalation. We suppose that wine tourism recovery to the same levels will be gradual and always on the alert for health safety. We are very excited to...

online wine tasting Devinssi PrioratFor many of us, lockdown is a challenge. And in the first months of release we do not know if we’ll be able to travel far from our homes. To see the vineyard landscapes, talk personally to people who turned winemaking into their passion... That’s why we’ve thought of giving you this chance to see our grapevines live through customised visits to our vineyard. How can they be done? When you buy 6 or more bottles of our DOQ Priorat / DO Montsant wine from our online shop, you can enjoy a discount. Jordi UstrellAnd this bonanza goes further: you will also have a customised virtual visit to the vineyard, live with Jordi Ustrell. Conditions:
  • Order paid at our online wine shop of at least 6 bottles.
  • Vineyard adopters: ask us for the customised promotion code.
  • Maximum runtime of the virtual tasting: 40 minutes.
  • Experience available in: Catalan, Spanish, English, French or Russian.
  • Contact us via mail or WhatsApp to fix the time.
  • USA, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, China: ask us where to find wines locally.

calçotada priorat celler devinssi gratallops clos figuerasThe calçotada time has come to Priorat! So has the time for typical winter tasks to carry out at the vineyards. Would you like to learn how to prune a vine and eat calçots in a rural setting of extraordinary scenic beauty? From Gratallops (DOQ Priorat), we'd like you to come over to enjoy an enriching and gastronomically exciting activity: vine pruning master class followed by a calçotada barbecue.
  • Date: 2 February, 2020 (Sunday) from 11 am to 3 pm
  • Location: Gratallops, DOQ Priorat
wine tourism in Priorat: grapevine pruning master class calçotada GratallopsThus you're going to learn how to prune grapevines in a nice company! Yo won't have to prune the whole vineyard, rather, we're going to show you the techniques so that you can have a wonderdul time in touch with the nature. The master class is followed up by a calçotada barbecue paired with our wine. Schedule:

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