# Priorat Wineries with tours in Escaladei and Gratallops, the first charterhouse on the peninsula, olive oil and hotels among the vines, an hour from Tarragona. Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/catalonia/priorat · Revisado: 2026-11-13 ## What is the Priorat and where do you start? It is a small, mountainous district in inland Tarragona, with the crags of the Montsant range to the north and terraced vineyard slopes falling towards the Siurana and Montsant rivers. Its name comes from the priory of the Escaladei charterhouse, founded in the 12th century, the first Carthusian house on the peninsula: the monks planted vines, and the district kept their name and their wine. Today Priorat wine holds the highest denomination category in Catalonia, the DOQ, and the DO Montsant surrounds it. Start with Escaladei: the charterhouse ruins explain the rest, and a short walk away are Cellers de Scala Dei, the winery that presents itself as the oldest in the district, and Terra Dominicata, a hotel and winery on the monks' former farm. Then head down to Gratallops, a winemaking village perched above the Siurana, and the road from Falset to Porrera. ## Which wineries can you visit? Almost all by reservation, and almost all small. These have published tours with prices: Cellers de Scala Dei, in Escaladei: a 90-minute visit with four wines for €25, in Spanish at 13:30 and 16:00. Terra Dominicata, in Escaladei: winery and four wines for €20, every day, over-14s only. Devinssi, in Gratallops: a trip out to the vineyard and a tailor-made tasting from €20, booked two days ahead. Buil & Giné, between Gratallops and La Vilella Baixa: five wines for €35 and a walk round the estate guided by your phone. Ferrer Bobet, on the T-740 between Falset and Porrera: vineyard, winery and three wines for €50. To see the terraces from the inside without driving, Montsant Natura runs 4x4 routes among the vines from Cornudella, with a tasting, and hires out electric bikes. And in harvest season, the La Bisbal cooperative shows visitors its oil mill for €8. ## Where to eat and sleep among the vines? The Priorat has few hotels and almost all are small; book well ahead in autumn. Terra Dominicata is the district's wine hotel: 26 adults-only rooms, its own winery, a spa among olive trees and its restaurant, Mater Terrae, with over 300 wines from the Priorat and Montsant. At Buil & Giné you sleep inside the winery, in three rooms with a terrace, and eat at Amics, at the top of the building. In the old centre of Gratallops, the Hotel Cal Llop has ten rooms and the wine bar La Boca del Llop, with a list of Priorat wines only. ## How do you get around without driving after a tasting? There is no practical public transport between the wineries. There are three honest solutions: sleep at a winery or next to one, so that the tasting is the last stop of the day; book a guided route, such as the 4x4 from Cornudella; or have someone who does not drink do the driving. The roads are narrow and twisty. Between Terra Dominicata and the charterhouse you can walk, about 40 minutes through the vines. Siurana, the village on the crag, is about 40 minutes by car from Escaladei and rounds off a day of wineries well. ## Dónde está - Zonas: Priorat wines - Cerca: Siurana (a 12.3 km), Prades (a 19.0 km), Valderrobres and the Matarraña (a 65.8 km), Sitges (a 84.6 km) ## Qué hacer - **Visit and tasting at Cellers de Scala Dei, the charterhouse's winery** (1 h 30 · Adults · Desde 25 € per person): Escaladei is a village of a few houses at the foot of the Montsant cliffs, a good kilometre from the charterhouse that gives it its name. On its main street is Cellers de Scala Dei, which presents itself as the oldest winery in the Priorat and ties its history to that of the Carthusian monks, who arrived in the region in the 12th century. It is the visit that best tells where the region's wine comes from, and it combines in the same morning with the charterhouse. What you see The introductory visit goes through the production and ageing areas and descends to the old 17th-century cellar. It ends with a guided tasting of four wines. It lasts 90 minutes and starts on time: arrive early. Prices, sessions and languages Introductory visit, €25. In the morning it leaves at 10:30 in English, at 12:00 in Catalan and at 13:30 in Spanish; in the afternoon, at 16:00 in all three languages. If you only want to taste, the four-wine introductory tasting costs €15, at 13:00 in Catalan and at 14:30 in Spanish. For those who already know the Priorat, Las garnachas de Scala Dei is six wines, almost all of red garnacha, for €50, and the Complete Collection, eight wines with limited editions, for €80. And the long experience, Visit and tasting in the vineyards, takes five hours: a light breakfast, a tasting of each vineyard's wine in the vineyard itself, lunch at Masdeu, above 650 metres, and a final visit to the winery, for €200 per person, in groups of two to eight. Booking and getting there Book on their website, choosing a date for each experience; the website does not say which days of the week have sessions, so confirm. Shop and visits phone: 977 82 71 73. Escaladei is on the T-702, between La Morera de Montsant and Poboleda; the charterhouse is a short walk away. - **The Escaladei charterhouse, the first on the peninsula** (1 h 30 · Everyone; free for under-16s · Desde 7 € per person): Before the Priorat was a wine name it was a priory: that of the Escaladei charterhouse, founded in the 12th century at the request of King Alfonso the Chaste, the order's first on the peninsula. The monks planted vines on these slopes and the region took its name from them. Today it is a romantic ruin at the foot of the Montsant cliffs, and the best first stop on any route through the area. What you see A walk outside and inside what remains: the façade, the three cloisters (one reconstructed), the church, the refectory and a reconstructed cell, which shows how a Carthusian lived. The ground is trodden earth and some spaces have rear access for people with reduced mobility. Opening hours and price Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 to 17:30 from 1 October to 30 April and 10:00 to 19:00 from 1 May to 30 September. Sundays and public holidays, 10:00 to 15:00 all year. Closed on Mondays that are not public holidays, on 25 and 26 December and on 1 and 6 January. The ticket office closes half an hour earlier. Admission is €7, or €5 reduced (over-65s, Carnet Jove, large families and others). It is free for under-16s, and for everyone on the last Tuesday of each month from October to June. The guided tour, with admission included, costs €11, and the "Els Ulls de la Història" tour is free with admission and by reservation. Bookings are made on 977 638 556, Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00, or at reservesmonuments.acdpc@gencat.cat. Getting there By the Camí de la Cartoixa, from the village of Escaladei. If you stay at Terra Dominicata, the hotel suggests walking: about 40 minutes among vines. - **Ferrer Bobet, from vineyard to glass between Falset and Porrera** (2 h 30 · Adults · Desde 35 € per person): The T-740, the narrow, winding road linking Falset and Porrera, passes at kilometre 6.5 right by the Ferrer Bobet winery. The building is half buried in the hillside: only the entrance, the bottling area and the visitors' room show, and everything else is inside the mountain, among vines. It was founded by two friends, Sergi Ferrer-Salat and Raül Bobet, and their first two wines, from the 2005 vintage, came out in 2008. Porrera, slate and fifteen hectares planted The winery is in the Porrera area, which the house describes as one of the coolest in the Priorat because of the north-east wind and the height and slope of its vineyards. The soil is almost all slate, the licorella. The estate has 70 hectares, of which only 15 have been planted, in 2004 and 2005, with Carignan, black Garnacha, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Viognier and Roussanne, under strictly organic viticulture, with no insecticides or herbicides. They also work centenarian Carignan and Garnacha vines from friends' vineyards. Their wines are Vinyes Velles and Selecció Especial Vinyes Velles. From the vineyard to the glass, or among barrels From the vineyard to the glass (De la vinya a la copa): starts in the vineyard, continues in the winery and ends with a three-wine tasting and an aperitif of local produce. About two and a half hours, €50 per person. Among barrels and aromas (Entre botes i aromes): the winery only, with the same three-wine tasting and aperitif. An hour and a half, €35 per person. On both you can add a tasting of Vi de Palla 20 Anys, a sweet wine aged twenty years in oak, for €15 more. A request, not a booking Both visits are by appointment and are requested through its website. What you send is a request: the booking isn't valid until the winery confirms by email. If you haven't had a reply within 24 to 48 hours, write to info@ferrerbobet.com or call 609 945 532. The website gives no days, times or languages for the visits, and says nothing about children: ask when you request it. The road to the winery You get there by car from Falset, going up the T-740 towards Porrera; there is no public transport to the door. The road is narrow and has many bends: take it easy, especially on the way back. If you are going to taste the three wines and the Vi de Palla, have someone who doesn't drink drive. In the Priorat, Ferrer Bobet is one of the wineries on the getaway Two nights at Terra Dominicata, along with the visit to Cellers de Scala Dei and the vineyard outing at Devinssi in Gratallops. - **Tasting at Buil & Giné and a Vineyard Bath on its Gratallops estate** (1 h 30 · Adults · Desde 35 € per person): Buil & Giné is at kilometre 11.5 of the road from Gratallops to La Vilella Baixa, in the middle of its estate, with the Montsant range behind. The building combines a winery, a wine tourism centre, a shop, the Amics restaurant upstairs and three rooms. The visit has two parts that you can do in whichever order you like: a five-wine tasting led by someone from the winery and the Baño de Viñas (Vineyard Bath), a walk through the vineyard that you do on your own with your phone. Numbered barrels among the vines The Baño de Viñas is a circular route around the estate. You download an app that gives you the map and the way, and on the ground the route is marked with numbered oak barrels that act as information points: at each one, the app tells you a piece of the story of the Priorat and the winery. The path runs between vines, with views of the Montsant range. The website gives neither the distance nor the elevation gain. You walk on vineyard soil: wear closed shoes and, in summer, a hat and water, and do it first thing or at the end of the afternoon. Five of the house wines at the tasting The tasting is led by a winery professional, who gives pointers for judging each wine. Five are tried: the white Joan Giné 2020, Giné Giné 2021, Joan Giné 2018, Angelia 2019 and Pleret 2014. It costs €35 per person, VAT included, and lasts about an hour and a half. With tapas or the Amics menu Wine & tapas: the same tasting accompanied by ham and fuet from a local producer, artisan goat and sheep cheese with quince, and bread with tomato and extra virgin olive oil, with the Baño de Viñas optional. €120 for two, about two hours. Wine tasting and lunch: Baño de Viñas, a five-wine tasting and the Amics menu in the winery restaurant, at the top of the building, with views of the range. €170 for two, about four hours; drinks, coffee and the wine with lunch are paid separately. Note that Amics is closed on Wednesdays. Booking and getting there The website does not give days or times of the sessions, or the languages: ask when you book, using the form on its website, at info@builgine.com, on 977 83 98 10 or by WhatsApp on 697 112 970. You get there by car from Gratallops, about ten minutes away; the winery has its own car park. If you taste all five wines, have someone who doesn't drink drive or stay the night in one of its three rooms with a terrace. It is the midday stop on the plan A day of wineries in Gratallops, which starts with the vineyard outing at Devinssi and ends with a glass at the Cal Llop wine bar. - **Vineyard outing and tasting with Celler Devinssi in Gratallops** (1 h 45 · Adults · Desde 20 € per person): Devinssi is a small artisan winery in the old quarter of Gratallops, on Carrer dels Masets, within the DOQ Priorat. The winery organises the visits itself, each tailored, and all begin outside, in a vineyard with views over the village, before you sit down to taste. A trip to the vineyard with Gratallops at your feet The first part is the outing to the vineyard. From there you can see Gratallops, the Montsant range, the hermitage and the south-west of the region. Then you taste in the winery's tasting room. Allow between an hour and a half and two hours for the two parts: the house warns that it depends on how many questions you ask. Senzilla, Pica-pica or Rocapoll All are priced per person and require a minimum of two: Senzilla, €20: vineyard and tasting. It can be booked in a bilingual version or in English only. Pica-pica, €35: vineyard and tasting with nibbles of local produce, which according to the website include fuet, ham, cheese, Arbequina olives, bread with tomato and oil, and nuts. There is a vegetarian and vegan version. Rocapoll, €50: the tasting includes the house Rocapoll wine, with nibbles. The sunset one, Capvespre, is paused until further notice. Five languages and two days' notice They host in Catalan, Spanish, English, French and Mandarin Chinese; in Mandarin there is a €30 supplement per group. Book on their booking page at least two days ahead, though they sometimes make exceptions. For times that don't appear in the calendar or for large groups, use only a WhatsApp text message to 608 783 094: the winery asks that you don't call or send photos. The email is info@devinssi.com. The website says nothing about children or dogs. Where to meet The meeting point is the car park opposite the Clos Figueras restaurant, at the entrance to Gratallops. Leave your car there: the winery asks you not to drive into or across the village, whose streets are narrow. From the Hotel Cal Llop, on Carrer de Dalt, it is a walk downhill. What else they have In the middle of the village they have a shop with their full DOQ Priorat range and two family projects from outside the region: an organic cava and an Albariño from Rías Baixas. They also rent rooms in Gratallops, sell gift vouchers and run a club for adopting a vine. It is the first stop on the plan A day of wineries in Gratallops, which continues with the tasting and Baño de Viñas at Buil & Giné, ten minutes away by car. - **Visit to the Terra Dominicata winery, on the Carthusians' farm** (1 h 15 · Over-14s · Desde 20 € per person): The old farm of the Escaladei monks, at kilometre 13 of the T-702, is today an adults-only hotel with its own winery. Terra Dominicata organically farms the 22 hectares of vineyard around the house, beneath the Montsant cliffs, and makes DOQ Priorat wines from them. The winery is next to the hotel and can be visited even if you aren't staying there. An hour in the Carthusians' winery A guide from the house shows how they make their wines and ends with a tasting of four of them. The house advertises it as 60 to 90 minutes, though it counts it as an hour; it costs €20 per person. There are sessions every day, some in Spanish or Catalan and others in English: choose yours when booking on the website or ask at reception. Like everything at Terra Dominicata, it is for over-14s only. The estate's wines In its online shop are the white Macabeu (€24), Umbra (€22), Garnatxa Peluda (€24) and Domus Aquilae (€33, and €66 in magnum). The website does not say which ones are in each tasting: if you want to try a specific one, ask for it. More plans from reception The same house organises other outings, which you ask for at reception: Horse ride among the vineyards, 90 minutes, €300 per person and a minimum of two, subject to availability. Picnic among the vines, prepared by the kitchen with local produce, from €35 per person. Oil tasting at the Miró Cubells mill in Cabacés, 30 minutes from the hotel, one hour, from €15 per person. Visits to other wineries in the Priorat and the Montsant, with price and duration depending on the winery. Day routes with Travel Priorat: historical, five hours, €360 for two; or artisans and producers, from €430 for two. Eating and carrying on on foot The house restaurant, which the website now calls Restaurant Terra Dominicata and which is still listed as Mater Terrae, serves lunches from 13:00 to 14:30 and dinners from 20:00 to 21:30, with more than 300 wines from the Priorat and the Montsant: the visit fits well mid-morning, before lunch. The Escaladei charterhouse is about 40 minutes' walk along a path among vines, and Cellers de Scala Dei, the other winery in Escaladei, is a short walk away. The getaway Two nights at Terra Dominicata starts from here and adds tastings at Ferrer Bobet and Devinssi. - **Visit to the La Bisbal cooperative's olive oil mill and Montsacer tasting** (2 h 30 · Everyone · Desde 8 € per person): In the Priorat it is not all vines: there are olive trees too, and the oil has its own designation, the DOP Siurana. La Bisbal de Montsant, in the north of the region at the foot of the range that gives it its name, at 372 metres above sea level, has its leading business in it. Its agricultural cooperative, founded in 1951, presses the Arbequina of the members from the village and from Margalef and bottles it as Montsacer. In harvest season it shows the mill to those who book. From a family mill to the cooperative The cooperative was born when the villagers joined together to buy the Molí del Fuster, one of five mills there were, all belonging to families to whom the farmers sold their olives. The visit tells that story in the order it happened: A walk through the village to one of the old mills, restored, hidden among the streets, where they explain how oil was made before. The Starlight viewpoint, with the view over the olive groves around La Bisbal. The cooperative's mill, with today's machinery, to see how the process has changed. Tasting of Montsacer oil, an Arbequina extra virgin, cold first-pressed. It lasts between two and three hours and costs €8 per person; children have a special price. Only while the olives are being picked The visit takes place only in harvest season, Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 13:00, in Catalan and Spanish, with a minimum of two people and always by reservation. Book on 977 819 034, by WhatsApp on 699 097 025 or at montsacer@montsacer.com. As it depends on the work at the mill, call a few days ahead to confirm that day is possible. On 6 December 2026 the cooperative holds the oil festival in the village: at 10:00, a communal breakfast and an oil tasting by the Catalan tasting panel, mill visits and sale of the new oil, which is already on sale in its online shop. Taking the oil home The cooperative shop sells Montsacer in 5-litre jerrycans for €35 and 2-litre for €15.50, the one-litre or 750 ml bottle for €7.50 and the 250 ml for €4.50, and gift packs with Arbequina olives. Getting there The cooperative is at Carrer La Palma 23, in the centre of La Bisbal de Montsant. You get there by car; there is no practical public transport. If you sleep at Terra Dominicata, in Escaladei, you can combine the mill with the Escaladei charterhouse, which is closed on Mondays, on the same day. ## Dónde comer - **Mater Terrae, the Terra Dominicata restaurant** (Restaurant, Escaladei, €€€€). Qué pedir: a rice dish or a dish from the surf and turf menu, and ask the dining-room team for a wine from another Priorat village to compare with the house ones - **Amics restaurant, at the top of the Buil & Giné winery** (Restaurant, Gratallops, €€€). Qué pedir: the seasonal menu with the house wines, after the tasting and the Baño de Viñas - **La Boca del Llop, the wine bar at Hotel Cal Llop** (Bar, Gratallops, €€). Qué pedir: a glass of a Gratallops wine with a platter of Cal Centre artisan charcuterie ## With friends: Small Wineries among Slate and Vines Priorat is a wine weekend for friends who prefer small wineries and unhurried tastings: tiny villages like Gratallops and Escaladei, slate vineyards and wines you taste with the people who make them. A weekend fits two visits a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and long dinners in Gratallops or Escaladei. The wineries are small and several ask for a reservation and a minimum number of people, so it is worth writing to them in advance and confirming the exact number. The views from the terrace at Cal Llop and the slate vineyards do the rest. ### What works best The tasting at Buil & Giné with a walk around the estate in Gratallops: five wines, an hour and a half, €35, and also with tapas or a meal The trip to the vineyards with Celler Devinssi: a tailored tasting, from €20 and with a minimum of two people The visit to Scala Dei, the old winery beside the charterhouse: four wines for €25 Ferrer Bobet, between Falset and Porrera: vineyard, winery, three wines and an aperitif from €35, with booking Terra Dominicata, with four wines for €20 and organic vines all around ### Where to sleep The Hotel Cal Llop, in the centre of Gratallops, with ten rooms, a terrace over the vineyards and packages with winery visits The Buil & Giné rooms: three rooms with a terrace, one of them a suite with a kitchen, inside the winery ### Where to eat La Boca del Llop, a wine bar with a list that is one hundred per cent Priorat and boards of cured meats and cheeses Amics, seasonal menu with wines from the DOQ Priorat, at midday and closed on Wednesday ### Keep in mind The wineries are visited by reservation and in small groups: write in advance The roads are narrow and winding; decide who drives before starting the tastings With short accommodation, fix the date before the visits ### Qué hacer with friends - Visit and tasting at Cellers de Scala Dei, the charterhouse's winery - Ferrer Bobet, from vineyard to glass between Falset and Porrera - Tasting at Buil & Giné and a Vineyard Bath on its Gratallops estate - Vineyard outing and tasting with Celler Devinssi in Gratallops - Visit to the Terra Dominicata winery, on the Carthusians' farm ## Preguntas frecuentes ### What is there to see in the Priorat in a day? The Escaladei charterhouse, a winery with a tasting in Escaladei or Gratallops and, if there is time, Siurana. ### How much does a tasting cost in the Priorat? From €15 for the four-wine tasting alone at Scala Dei; the tour with tasting is €25, and those at other wineries run from €20 to €50. ### Where to sleep in the Priorat among the vines? At Terra Dominicata, in Escaladei, or in the rooms at the Buil & Giné winery, near Gratallops. ### Can you visit the Priorat without a car? Hardly: there is no practical public transport between wineries. The sensible thing is to sleep at a winery and get around on a guided route. ### When is the best time to go to the Priorat? In spring and autumn; in September and October, during the grape harvest.