This cooking holiday will really allow you to discover first hand why Catalonia and its food have become so popular. With five hands-on classes of approximately three hours each and four restaurant meals, you get a great knowledge of the unique and exuberant food of this region. Four visits to local Priorat wine producers and vineyards, along with wine tastings, allow you to discover and appreciate the fantastic DOC Priorat and DO Montsant wines. All winery visits are very extensive and include full tastings as well as facility tour and very personalized attention by the winery owner or enologist. An official olive oil tasting will let you discover the incredible DO Siurana olive oils The presentation is done by a technician from the Priorat Olive Oil Consortium and is in the same way as the tastings done by the IOOC (International Olive Oil Council) Cooking starts at 6 pm every evening after a rich and varied day and time to siesta in the afternoon of course!. This is an all inclusive holiday and there are no extra costs during your stay, except for gifts you may want to purchase. Included are all classes with necessary materials, all meals for using only the best and freshest ingredients, all restaurant meals, all high quality Priorat wines, all drinks (it's an open bar), all excursions and tips. There's also a complimentary apron, a recipe book, a diploma and a gift to remember it all by! Pick up at Barcelona airport and transfer to El Priorat, where you'll have a welcome apéritif (this is actually almost a meal!). Then it's your first cooking class in the hotel's large, specially equipped kitchen with its open fireplace. Dinner follows. After a leisurely breakfast it's off to the Bodegas Ithaca winery and vineyards in Gratallops, followed by a lunch at a restaurant considered the best in the area. Sleep it off in the afternoon before reconvening in the kitchen for your second cooking session followed by dinner. Another day of wine tasting at the Costers del Siurana winery, lunching traditional Catalan style at a good local restaurant, olive oil tasting, rounding off with cooking and dinner Today you visit the Scala dei monastery and the Conreria de Scala Dei winery with lunch at C'an Miquelet del Mano. Then it?s back to the kitchen for more Catalan culinary secrets. It's a daytrip to Reus, the regions most important commercial and cultural centre after Barcelona and Gaudi's birthplace. Do the 'Gaudi' route, shop, tour the food market, have a tapas lunch and soak up the atmosphere. More cooking in the evening Today, visit the Joan d'Anguera winery in Darm followed by an artisanal ceramics centre in Miravet. Then to your final cooking session 'a Catalan barbeque' a delicious end to a rich culinary week! Transfer to Barcelona airport after breakfast 2008: Mar 18, Jun 3, July 22, Sept 17, Nov 5