About us
El Molí means The Mill. Our home and business centre in Penedes is a 18C Paper mill and olive mill. For a while it served as a Police Barracks and when we acquired the run down building in 1998 most locals called it the old barracks of the Guardia Civil. It wasn't a very popular name so we decided to give it back its old name in Catalan and to use it as the name for our family run company. Based in Torrelles de Foix in Penedès, El Molí Tours has been bringing visitors to the most innovative wineries and restaurants of Southern Catalunya since 1995. We provide transport, equipment and the most wonderful expert guides so that you enjoy the best wine experience anywhere near Barcelona
Paddy Mannion, el Molí, DO Penedes
Good wine is nothing without good company and that, naturally, involves good food too. Irishman Paddy Mannion has spent thirty years learning about all three, in the course of a career as restaurant manager and sommelier in Ireland, Holland, Germany, the USA and Spain. Happily settled in the D.O. Penedès just south of Barcelona, he is today an acknowledged authority on the people and wines from Penedes to Priorat, and a guide to enjoying all that is best about Southern Catalunya.
Stefan Lismond, DOQ Priorat
Stefan Lismond lives in Priorat, probably the most historic "new" red wine region in Spain. When he is not working on wine exports for small local producers or giving visitors a incredible wine tour he is preparing another wonderful food and wine experience. Stefan is a veteran of hospitality having run his own rural hotel, restaurant and cultural centre in Penedès, Can Festís. The Festís lives on in his Cava (Winner of the 2006 Rotary Club award) and anytime he takes care of a group of our visitors.
Stefan "Festis" Lismond the winner, one of our disgracefully successful guides
Life is too short to drink bad wine
El Molí Tours is committed to discovering new wines and wine-makers, small wineries, wonderful gastronomy and charming historic corners of Southern Catalunya. We expose small producers to new clients and bring our grain of sand to the sustainable and long term development of enotourism in our region. Our tours, like good wines, offer a balance between tradition and modern, innovation and expertise, food and wine, people and country.
El Moliteers, Doc 911 Martin, Festis Lismond, and Felix the Castle
Cheers and all the best
The El Molí Team