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Spain: Catalonia 2025 – Let There Be Rain

The region suffered four years of accumulated drought, with diminishing yields. But rain finally came in November 2024, so things are looking up....

Luis Gutiérrez • 30 Apr 2025

Cataluña Sparkling wine Priorat

Spain: Cataluña – The Dry Years

Most of the wines I tasted were from the last three vintages—2021, 2022 and 2023. All three years were dry, following an unusually rainy 2020....

Luis Gutiérrez • 17 May 2024

Catalonia garnacha Priorat

Book Review: “Ethos Priorat,” by Elisabeth Hecker

This book contains over 300 pages of detail and love for Priorat. Hecker spent 10 years in this magnetic Catalonian region, documenting what she saw....

Luis Gutiérrez • 28 Nov 2023

book review Priorat Cataluña

Spain: Álvaro Palacios Portfolio – The 2020 and 2021 Vintages

For this report, I tasted the Álvaro Palacios wines from three regions—Bierzo, Priorat and Rioja—including the 2021s from barrel and the bottled 2020s....

Luis Gutiérrez • 29 Jun 2022

Rioja Priorat Bierzo

Spain: (Mostly) Priorat and Montsant – Mostly 2017s and 2018s

For this report, I tasted a majority of wines from 2017 and 2018 (nearly 80% of the notes included here), two very different, almost opposite vintages....

Luis Gutiérrez • 09 Jul 2021

Spanish wine Priorat Spain

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