The Alvaro Palacios Winery, in Gratallops, is the most prestigious DOQ Priorat Wines winery in the world. Its creations are marketed in 75 countries, with the three great creations L'Ermita, Finca Dofí and Les Terrasses. He purchased his first vineyard, Finca Dofi, in 1990. Then, in 1993, he found what is now considered the jewel in the crown. And it is that in the Álvaro Palacios Winery in Priorat, L'Ermita was created, its most commercialized wine. While in his cellar, he contacted the School of Oenology at the University of Bordeaux, to ensure that, with the raw material from the area, expensive wines could be obtained and placed among those of the high-priced range worldwide. Years later he managed to make L'Ermita the most expensive wine in Spain, a position it held until Pingus 1999. The renowned British wine writer John Radford, in 'The New Spain' (1998), he cataloged it as 'the best red wine in Spain'. Palacios's passions, in this interview for Apuntes de Vino, Palacios says that he thinks more about vineyards than wines when asked about his best wines . 'I tell my daughter and my nephew that L'Ermita (Priorat) and La Faraona (Bierzo) do not belong to us, that they belong to the heritage of Spain, that it is part of all of us, and that the legacy has touched us, not to recover them because they were there, but to understand them'.

The Alvaro Palacios Winery, in Gratallops, is the most prestigious DOQ Priorat Wines winery in the world.

Its creations are marketed in 75 countries, with the three great creations L'Ermita, Finca Dofí and Les Terrasses.

He purchased his first vineyard, Finca Dofi, in 1990. Then, in 1993, he found what is now considered the jewel in the crown. And it is that in the Álvaro Palacios Winery in Priorat, L'Ermita was created, its most commercialized wine. While in his cellar, he contacted the School of Oenology at the University of Bordeaux, to ensure that, with the raw material from the area, expensive wines could be obtained and placed among those of the high-priced range worldwide.

< p> Years later he managed to make L'Ermita the most expensive wine in Spain, a position it held until Pingus 1999. The renowned British wine writer John Radford, in 'The New Spain' (1998), he cataloged it as 'the best red wine in Spain'.

Palacios's passions, in this interview for Apuntes de Vino, Palacios says that he thinks more about vineyards than wines when asked about his best wines . 'I tell my daughter and my nephew that L'Ermita (Priorat) and La Faraona (Bierzo) do not belong to us, that they belong to the heritage of Spain, that it is part of all of us, and that the legacy has touched us, not to recover them because they were there, but to understand them'.