“Dear friends, my name is Francesc Capafons, founder of CAPAFONS-OSSÓ winery. Together with my wife, Montserrat and my five children, we are excitedly watching how our winery grows through our hard work and determination.” This is how the blog starts off which Capafons-Ossó winery has just published...
Tom Settino is a wine lover from the United States who has opened a new channel on YouTube where he comments on World wines. In this video which is published on YouTube, Settino talks about the characteristics of DO Montsant wines and compares them to the other wine appellation in Priorat County: DOC...
More and more wineries around the county and within the DO Montsant are starting to open their doors to tourism. At the same time, there are more and more visitors to the region who would like to get to know one of the most dynamic wine regions of Spain. This region which enjoys a Mediterranean climate,...
The Fourteenth Wine Fair (Exhibition of the wines of the two wine appellations of Priorat County) has published its initial programme. As in past editions, this important fair in the wine calendar will take place over the first weekend of May and this year, 2009 it is also happens to be a long bank holiday.
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Scandinavians are consumers of wine, often at the top of the list depending on the tendency. Recently Swedish experts have started to recommend the screw cap as they consider it to better conserve wine. The journalist and wine critic, Bengt-Göran Kronstam, in the ‘Dagens Nyheter’ newspaper, praises...
The D.O and the Catalan Wine and Viticulture Institute (INCAVI) have presented initial conclusions to the division of the wine appellation into “zones”. This initial study includes descriptions of climate, soil and other conditioning factors. The aim is to scientifically define the area’s characteristics...
The European Union and the United States have reached an agreement on the wine trade which will protect the European wine appellations. According to this agreement, for example, from the 10th March onwards, producers will not be able to export wine if its labels contain words such as “clos”, “tawny”...
