Classifying Priorat - Wine & Spirits Magazine

Classifying Priorat

Tradition Meets Terroir in New, Site-Specific Designations


Alvaro Palacios’s L’Ermita, planted between 1900 and 1940
Alvaro Palacios’s L’Ermita, planted between 1900 and 1940

Scala Dei’s Masdeu is one of the highest vineyards in Priorat. From its perch at 2,624 feet, the surrounding landscape looks like a mosaic. The mountains point in all…

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This story appears in the print issue of October 2017.
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