The 50th anniversary of Scala Dei’s La Cartoixa

On a rainy day in September, in the drought-stricken wine region of Priorat, a group of both local and international attendees arrived to the 12th-century monastery of Cartoixa d’Escaladei. They weren’t there to take in the 800 years of monastic history but instead celebrate the 50th anniversary of the region-defining wine, La Cartoixa, produced for the first time in 1974 by Cellers de Scala Dei. It’s unknown if the monks of the Cartoixa brought vines with them at the end of the 12th century, but they definitely produced wine, starting […]