Torres Priorat Salmos

This Wine is a homage to the monks of the courageous carthusian order, who arrived in ’Priorat’, in 1095, where they cultivated vines. In 1835 a violent crowd destroyed the work of a lifetime and sacked the monastery, events which later culminated in the auctioning of church lands known as the ”Desamortizacion de Mendizabal”. In 1996 the Torres Family began work on the planting of vineyards on the slopes strewn with the hard, black slate-like ”Licorella” stone…