Marques de Murrieta Wine

"I have been terribly excited about this wine since I first learned that (part of) it was still in cement waiting to be bottled in September 2013. I consider the rare white Castillo Ygay one of the greatest white wines ever produced... Read More

The 2011 Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial was produced with a blend of 84% Tempranillo and 16% Mazuelo (Cariñena) from a plot called La Plana that was planted in 1950 at 485 meters in altitude the highest in the Ygay property.... Read More

I tasted again the 2012 Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial as the wine was not produced in 2013 2014 or 2015 and the 2016 will not be released until 2027. The next vintages will be 2017 2019 and 2021. The 2012 was produced with... Read More

The 2019 Dalmau Reserva was produced with a blend of 86% Tempranillo 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Graciano from Pago Canajas within the property nine hectares planted in 1945 on red stony soils where they seek low yields to achieve... Read More

Style: defined aromas taut. Color: bright straw. Aroma: expressive ripe fruit floral fine lees mineral. Flavour: spicy long elegant.

A barrel selection of the most age-worthy wines from the vintage make the 2016 Gran Reserva Limited Edition this year a blend of 82% Tempranillo 10% Graciano and 8% Mazuelo selected from their 300 hectares of vineyards. The grapes... Read More

The 2020 Rioja Reserva their flagship wine comes from the 300 hectares of estate vineyards. Here Tempranillo is the backbone making up 82% of the blend in the low-yielding vintage of 2019 complemented with 8% Graciano 7% Mazuelo... Read More

2019 saw an early start of the harvest with low yields and small grapes with concentration but balance. The 2019 Capellanía an update on the long-aging whites from yesteryear was produced with grapes picked on the 10th and 11th... Read More