Wine route through Montsant

In the morn­ing:

The Joan Anguera win­ery was founded in 1820 by a fam­ily of wine­mak­ers in Darmós, and took the name in homage to Josep Anguera who had the idea of de­vel­op­ing a fresh red wine, which years later would be­come the hall­mark of the cel­lar. He was pi­o­neer in plant­ing for­eign va­ri­eties such as syrah or caber­net sauvi­gnon in the higher areas of Montsant. After his death, his sons Joan and Josep took over and now the sev­enth gen­er­a­tion of this hard­work­ing and hon­est fam­ily with viti­cul­ture in its blood today con­tinue the work in the vine­yard and wine­mak­ing in the cel­lar with the same ded­i­ca­tion as the founder.

The 2012 vin­tage re­ceived the Deme­ter cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of or­ganic and bio­dy­namic wine­mak­ing and so began a new phase for the win­ery, a con­stant re­spect for the en­vi­ron­ment and al­low­ing the land and vines ex­press them­selves in all the au­then­tic wines they pro­duce. With the ap­pli­ca­tion of bio­dy­namic agri­cul­ture, the vine­yard con­firmed its com­mit­ment to local va­ri­eties with­out ne­glect­ing the syrah which is now well adapted to the re­gion the wines main­tain a light woody bal­ance. The re­sult are pure and aro­matic wines.

There are 31 hectares of vines planted with carig­nan, grenache and syrah va­ri­eties, which are har­vested man­u­ally. There are also olive and al­mond trees. In the win­ery, lo­cated in a large, beau­ti­fully re­stored masia in Darmós, adapted to cur­rent needs, they pro­duce about 120,000 bot­tles a year, 60% of which are des­tined for ex­port.

Guided tours for in­di­vid­u­als and groups.

Tel: 977 418 248 joan@​cel​lers​joan​dang​uera.​com

For lunch

AQ is the child of Ana and Quentin, first com­pan­ions, then friends, later on a cou­ple, par­ents, and now part­ners. It is their way of un­der­stand­ing gas­tron­omy and life. They want the restau­rant to just like one where they would like to eat and enjoy them­selves, with sim­ple cui­sine based on taste, tra­di­tion and sea­sonal prod­ucts. The restau­rant of­fers two ex­cel­lent tast­ing menus:

LARGE: a lengthy menu, sea­sonal cui­sine on the new pro­pos­als with other clas­sic dishes.

SMALL: shorter, for those who want to taste a lit­tle here and there.

There is a weekly menu from Tues­day to Fri­day at mid­day with fresh and sim­ple fare, suit­able for all ages and pock­ets.

Tel: 977 215 954 / www.​aqr​esta​uran​t.​com