Barcelona: Full Day Private Priorat Wine Tour + Gourmet Lunch

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Full day private Priorat Wine tour + Gourmet Lunch

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January 7, 2009 (Wed) - January 10, 2009 (Sat)

9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

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Full day private Priorat Wine tour + Gourmet Lunch

Rosselló, 346 entl 2ª
Barcelona, barcelona 0825
ph. +34934576878

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THE Wine Colours

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COST: 180 eur x person ( 6 people)

EVENT DETAILS:

We will depart from Barcelona at 0900 to the Priorat region where we will stop to visit the Scala Dei Monastery founded by the mokns of San Bruno. It was the first Monastery in the Spanish Kingdom, and from there the monks went out to create 25 Monasteries all over Spain. The Scala Dei Monastery was built in a plot given by the King Alfonso I el Casto as a present in the XII century. From Scala Dei we will travel to the town of Gratallops, the Priorat´s wine Cathedral, where we can find four of the most important and renowned wineries in the Priorat region. Although the Priorat wines have been produced for centuries, it is only recently in the past decade or so, that these have taken a quantitative leap in quality that now puts them on the forefront of Spanish wines. This revolution has been taking place mainly by these five visionaries winemakers:

Clos de l´Obac form Carles Pastrana), Daphne Glorian (Clos Erasmus), Clos Mogador, from René Barbier, and of course Alvaro Palacios.

We will visit one of this traditional and renowned wineries where we will enjoy a visit and private tasting led by oenologists from the house. After that we will enjoy a tasting lunch in an intriguing restaurant in Gratallops with wine matching.

Alter lunch our return to Barcelona is scheduled around 6:30 hrs.

Highlights

* Priorat landscapes

* Visit two typical catalan small towns at the Priorat region

* Scala Dei Monastery

* Visit a winery including a private tasting led by the oenologists from the house

* Tasting menu lunch with wine in one of our selected restaurants in the area

The Tour include

* Luxury transportation during the whole journey

* Bilingual guide

* Guided visit at the winery and wine tasting

* Visit Scala Dei Cloister