TASTING NOTE
Colour
A greenish-yellow wine.
AROMA:
The nose has a marked Verdejo varietal aroma with medium intensity and hints of fennel, mixed herbs, white blossom, pear and peach. It is not a wine which tries to impress you with an explosion on the nose, but rather reveals an elegant, more complex varietal character.
TASTE:
It has a fresh, oily, very smooth mouth-feel, with a long, round finish. Its good acidity together with a period of ageing on its finest lees help to keep its fresh taste longer and preserves all its aromatic complexity. These are wines which can even still be enjoyed 24-30 months after they were harvested.
MATCHING
This wine pairs well with fish, shellfish, white meat, ham, pasta, chicken and cold cuts
WHO CAN CONTRACT
Peñín Guide 2012: 91/100
After 150 years of great experience, his success and key to success has been to combine as one its long tradition and established brand with regeneration and adaptation to the times of all its facilities and, most importantly, modernizing its range of wines . A house that, somehow, has always been ahead of its time, a house that has been known to take risks and successful approach without losing its cultural background. Proof of this are for instance your bet and incursion "early" in Rueda, his Baron de Chirel, his new winery, its renewed wine reserve and his new estate wines.
Founded in 1858 by Camilo Hurtado de Amézaga, Marqués de Riscal, stands as one of the most recognized and historical brands in the Rioja and Spanish wine world, now almost more for the brave, bold and modern extension of the hotel cellar, to by Frank Gehry that undoubtedly represents a very sound bet Guggenheim style with international management and wine therapy spa.
Peñín Guide 2010: 90/100 points (Marqués de Riscal Finca Montico Verdejo 2008)