Thursday, 22 March 2018

Wines from a UNESCO Heritage Site


I saw these wines at the wine department of a Japanese department store near where I work. The illuminated capital P caught my eye and on further perusal I found that these come from the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet, a Csitercian monastery dating back to the 12th century and a UNESCO World Heritage Site from 1991. It became part of the Cordoniu group in 1998. The area was conquered by the Moors in the Middle Ages but after the Reconquista, the French mionk brought back grape vines (Pinot Noir) from their mother abbey in Burgundy and this grape had been planted for a long time in this locality. Now indigenous grapes (Trepat, Garrut and Garnatxa) are grown and are used to make much of the wine, although a pure Pinot Noir is still made under the label Les Masies de Poblet.

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