Clos Mogador produces estate bottled wines in Gratallops, Catalonia in the DOQ Priorat.

[1] They have gone on to garner impressive scores by wine critics and have built up one of the most well-known brands in all of Priorat.

[1] René Barbier III was descended from a family of French winemakers although he was born in Tarragona and grew up in Catalonia.

Coming with his wife Isabelle Meyer and their young children to the Priorat region, he found a promising wine region that had for years been neglected although excellent wines had sometimes appeared such as the seminal 1974 vintage from Cellers de Scala Dei.

The Clos Mogador was one of the first wines to be awards the "Vi de Finca" certification in Catalonia which signifies that it has been produced for over a decade from the same, single vineyard.