Marqués de Riscal, Reserva - 2020

Name: Marqués de Riscal, Reserva
Brand: Marqués de Riscal
SKU: 49564
Price: 18.99 USD
Availability: InStock

750 mL

Item # 49564

Marqués de Riscal is Spain's oldest Bodega. The earthy nose gives way to a palate of cherries, strawberries and vanilla. The finish is long and luxurious. Try with stew, lamb or poultry.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2020

Country

Spain

Region

Rioja

Producer

Marqués de Riscal

Grape Variety

Tempranillo

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Staff Pick Notes

Tempranillo holds a special place in my heart. When I first started exploring wine as a serious career avenue, wines from Spain hit me like a truck. Elegant, bold, refined - a combination of flattering adjectives that is hard to describe for an entire country's wine. The 2020 reserva from Marqués de Riscal, for example, is textbook tempranillo. A wine so bold in oak character while maintaining an overripe red fruit condition shouldn't work as well as this does - but, spoiler alert, it does. The alcohol level and tannins are juuuuuuuust right and at no point do you feel overpowered by any one aspect of the wine. A perfect Goldilocks of a beverage that works beautifully with a fatty red meat (bonus points if said fatty red meat is also grilled).

- JM

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