Staiway to Heaven

No this has nothing to do with the 1970s Led Zeppelin song (for those who are old enough to remember it), this is about a Spanish winery, Scala Dei, whom some have nicknamed stairway to heaven  (Scala Dei is literally God's ladder in Latin). The winery can trace its origins back to the 12th century when Carthusian monks started growing vines here. The name of the monastery owes itself to a legend about a shepherd dreaming of angels coming down a ladder from the sky to the top of a tall pine tree here. A working monastery till the mid 19th century when Church properties were confiscated, the buildings have been reduced to ruins but the vineyards have passed down different families, who bottled the first Priorat wine in 1878 and presented it at the Paris World Fair. Wine making was modernized in the 1970s and the Cordoniu group acquired a part share in the 2000s.