Priorat: Spain's Most Dramatic Wine

Priorat is a small, remote appellation in Catalonia that produces some of the most concentrated, mineral, and expensive wines in Spain, and one of the most dramatic wine stories of the last forty years. Today's episode covers the ancient volcanic slate soils called llicorella that give Priorat its unique mineral signature, the old-vine Garnacha and Cariñena that dominate the region, the small group of winemakers who reinvented the appellation in the 1980s, and why a great Priorat is unlike anything else in the wine world.