| Wine region | |
 | |
| Official name | Denominació d'Origen Qualificada Priorat / Denominació d'Origen Protegida Priorat |
|---|---|
| Type | Denominación de Origen Calificada |
| Year established | 2006 (DO 1954) |
| Country | Spain |
| Precipitation (annual average) | 400-600 mm |
| Total area | 19,783 hectares |
| Size of planted vineyards | 2,010 hectares (4,967 acres) (2018)[1] |
| No. of vineyards | 567 |
| Grapes produced | 4.8 tn |
| No. of wineries | 109[1] |
| Wine produced | 14,417 hectolitres |
| Comments | Data for 2016 / 2017 |
Priorat is a Denominació d'Origen Qualificada (DOQ) for Catalan wines produced in the Priorat county, in the province of Tarragona, in the southwest of Catalonia.
The DOQ covers 11 municipalities. It primarily produces powerful red wines, which came to international attention in the 1990s. The area is characterised by its unique terroir of black slate and quartz soil known as llicorella.[2]
It is one of only two wine regions in Spain to qualify as DOCa, the highest qualification level for a wine region according to Spanish wine regulations, alongside Rioja DOCa.
Priorat is the Catalan word, the one that appears most often on wine labels, while the Castilian equivalent is Priorato.
- ^ a b "Consell Regulador de la DOQ Priorat". www.doqpriorat.org. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ Jancis Robinson, ed. (2006). "Priorat". Oxford Companion to Wine (Third ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 548. ISBN 0-19-860990-6.