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Meritxell Pallejà is a Catalan winemaker, responsible for this organic winery in Priorat, Tarragona (Spain). Her career began in 2004 with "Nita", a wine she created in homage to her grandmother Juanita. Both his grandparents had a small concentrated must factory. This family business has influenced Meritxell's life and in 2015 she opened her own winery in Gratallops.
Meritxell Pallejà's Vineyards
If there is one detail that sets her apart from the rest, it is her care for the estate through methods that respect the environment and its biodiversity. The idea is to intervene as little as possible and to work the land following the lunar cycles in the field, something she learned from her ancestors.He has five farms, all cultivated on shallow slate soils with a low organic matter content. They work them without pesticides and till them with a tractor or power tiller. To control weeds, where the machines cannot reach, they also weed by hand.
Everything is worked with patience, even the harvest, which is done by hand using riper and healthier grapes. This land offers small productions of very expressive wines, with a powerful personality. For this reason, this winery focuses on the native varieties of Priorat to make great wines: Garnacha and Cariñena.
Wines by Meritxell Pallejà
The Nita is the youngest wine of the winery and the most representative of the globality of the vineyards of the area, Priorat. It is made with grapes and wines from young vineyards, grown in trained vines and goblet-trained vines. The rest of the wines they make are more singular, and come from estate-owned vineyards.- ;
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Buy Wine from Meritxell Pallejà
Meritxell Pallejà is a Catalan winemaker, responsible for this organic winery in Priorat, Tarragona (Spain). Her career began in 2004 with "Nita", a wine she created in homage to her grandmother Juanita. Both his grandparents had a small concentrated must factory. This family business has influenced Meritxell's life and in 2015 she opened her own winery in Gratallops.
Meritxell Pallejà's Vineyards
If there is one detail that sets her apart from the rest, it is her care for the estate through methods that respect the environment and its biodiversity. The idea is to intervene as little as possible and to work the land following the lunar cycles in the field, something she learned from her ancestors.He has five farms, all cultivated on shallow slate soils with a low organic matter content. They work them without pesticides and till them with a tractor or power tiller. To control weeds, where the machines cannot reach, they also weed by hand.
Everything is worked with patience, even the harvest, which is done by hand using riper and healthier grapes. This land offers small productions of very expressive wines, with a powerful personality. For this reason, this winery focuses on the native varieties of Priorat to make great wines: Garnacha and Cariñena.