In 2003, the winery of Portal del Montsant is founded, located in the old Marçà's former cooperative, a building dedicated to the elaboration of wines from the beginning of last century.

This emergent cellar of Montsant stands out for working with the traditional varieties: Grenache and carignan, specially this last one, predominant in the southwest zone of the Denomination of Origin. The wines, subtle, flagrant and complex, take their name from the founder of the Cartusian monastic order, Sant Bruno of Cologne. The monks settled in the Priorat region from 1194 and were impellers of the viticulture.



Portal del Montsant is an ensemble of small vineyards -crus- of extraordinary quality and variability of soils (clayey, calcareous and sandy) orientations and altitudes. They constitute a unique, rich selection of old carignan lands, with very low production, in more than 20 ha. The vineyards are older than 65 years, with high densities of plantation, of vase bush vines with a very narrowed spaced rows.

The climatology of the region (Masroig, Molar, Capçanes, Marçà) is strictly Mediterranean, with some continental characteristic for the vineyards placed in the northern part and the highest part of the D.O. (700-800 meters) in Cornudella. The diverse carignan combine his major expression contributing with complementary proprieties to the final wine assemblage.

The predominant varieties in the assemblies are, in this order: carignan, grenache and syrah. White grenache, and grey grenache for the white wines.

The cellar, completely reformed, has the tank sizes adapted to the extension of the different vineyards and keeps until the end separated each one of the vinifications and aging.