Orto 2008 from Orto Vins winery in the D.O. Montsant, has been chosen as the house wine for Christmas celebrations this year at the Gran Hotel La Florida (*****) restaurant in Barcelona.
According to the winery, Claudio Comella, head sommelier at this emblematic hotel overlooking the city from Tibidabo...
D.O. Montsant winery, Cellers Sant Rafel is one of the sponsors of the Memorimage film festival This festival takes place in Reus and kicks off on Thursday, 5th November and continues until the following Sunday.
Memorimage shows and gives awards to films which use archive material as part of their content....
Guiamets Co-operative Winery has been receiving many accolades and favourable press recently. On 1st October, their wine, “Isis” 2005 won a Bronze medal in the Vinhoreca competition in Madrid.
This contest involves restaurant professionals who choose the best wines based on price and quality....
The UK’s specialist wine press have been singing DO Montsant’s praises. This week, the wine critic, Helen Savage has published an article entitled: “Montsant: Holy Mountain bargains from Spain”.
The article gives a history of the DO Montsant from its beginnings and emphasises...
The influential wine blog, Catavino has recently focussed a series of reports on the DO Montsant. The creators of this blog visited the wine appellation a few weeks ago and are now communicating their views on the web. The main report published is titled ‘Assumptions versus Reality: What is D.O....
The latest edition of “Mi Vino” magazine has dedicated a good part of its pages to the wines of the two wine appellations of the Priorat region (DO Montsant and DOC Priorat).
The headline is: “Wines of Priorat and Montsant. Modern, bewitching, mineral”. The main article says “despite...
Freelance British wine writer, Rebecca Gibb, has written very favourably about the DO Montsant this week in her blog.
The journalist writes: “The words ‘wow’ and ‘outstanding’ don’t often get written during a tasting and when they do, I have to tell you about it.”
Rebecca...
The last edition of the magazine, ‘Sibaritas‘ has selected a wine from the DO Montsant as a “Wine to go down in History”. They are talking about ‘L’espectacle 2005′ from Laurona winery, topping the list of wines made by the prestigious vintner, René Barbier....
On the 21st of April, the SER channel radio programme ‘Hoy por Hoy’, presented by Carles Francino, has dedicated a section of the programme on talking about current wine issues in Spain.
The section on Catalonia has especially mentioned the wines of the DO Montsant as they consider them to be...
Various wineries send us write-ups in the media on their wines. In this case, we would like to talk about two in particular which have recently been published. The first one has just appeared in the magazine, ‘Descobrir Cuina’ (Discovering Cuisine) and talks about the ‘Mas de la Caçadora’...
