TASTING NOTE
Colour
A straw-yellow coloured wine with golden glints.
AROMA:
A complex nose with hints of vanilla and wild mountain herbs.
TASTE:
On the palate it is dense with underlying fine lees, dried fruits and the typical toasted nuances from the cask ageing process.
MATCHING
This wine makes a good pairing with fish prepared in a sauce, white meat, even with sauces if they are not too strong, roast lamb, sautéed vegetables and pulse dishes, etc.
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: 92/100 points (Marqués de Riscal Limousin BFB 2008)