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A very marked wine identity, a bright and wild environment, a future full of vitality and character.

Álvaro Palacios arrived in Gratallops in the Priorat in 1989, thanks to a group of local producers determined to obtain the best of the historical equation that characterizes this mystical and frugal land.

The hilly landscape of Priorat, its hills carpeted with vineyards, its compact villages and its terraced hillsides are all treasures, preserving the memory of a past shaped by the Carthusian monks.

The order founded the Monastery of Escaladei, sheltered under the rocks of the Montsant range, in 1194, and it is from there that the cultivation of the vine has developed for more than six hundred years.

The long centuries of monastic presence have resulted in characteristic styles and forms of cultivation, closely linked to a complex system of vine cultivation.

The steep hills, with their open, basic soils, are dotted with ripe garnacha vines in which one can discern ancient wisdom in which one can discern ancient wisdom.

The ancestral work from generation to generation ensures the persistence of a strong and vigorous wine character, helped by the contrasts of the Mediterranean climate with more than 3 hours of sunshine and less than 000 mm of precipitation per year, while the proximity of the sea brings the freshness of the garbinada wind from the south-west on summer afternoons.

In our vineyards, twenty or thirty expert hands skillfully work the broken earth. The horses climb the steep slopes to open with the plow the llicorella, the characteristic schist, in an unceasingly rewoven link with the living, a constant search for purity.

Spirit, patience, passion, light and rigor: all the connotations of our history, our efforts and our geography are sublimated in wines with a round structure and fresh minerality.

We produce wines in three historic regions with deep spiritual traditions: Rioja Oriental, Priorat and Bierzo. Each of these areas, with its mystery and its singular beauty, preserves the heritage of ancestral wine-growing practices and a captivating link between nature and history.
We strive to achieve an affinity with the physical, natural and historical environment of each area. We follow organic practices to return to a primitive harmony.

We value and praise the spiritual imprint and know-how accumulated over centuries of agricultural tradition.

Our wines, born in different places, all share a feeling of maturity, purity, balance and life. An organic effort: nature.