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Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 2010

Bodegas Marques de Murrieta, Rioja, Spain

Bodegas Marques de Murrieta
Rioja Spain
  • 100
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  • The 186 best
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  • 8 Pros of
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    2

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    1

  • Decanting time

    2h

  • When to drink

    now - 2030

  • Food Pairing

    wagyu sirloin tartare

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CASTILLO YGAY, CHOSEN AS BEST GRAN RESERVA IN THE WORLD

Falstaff magazine, one of the most prestigious publications in the world of wine and cuisine, has published their much-anticipated ratings, having given 100 points to four Castillo Ygay vintages, from the winery Marqués de Murrieta. These vintages include the recently launched Castillo Ygay 2010.

After an historic vertical tasting, Falstaff critic and editor, Peter Moser, gives the ...

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The Story

The result of many years of experience, a renowned historic label. An icon of the Rioja Grandes Reservas of total quality and excellence. Exclusively produced with the best years of our best single vineyard, matured for two and a half years in American oak barrels and three years in bottle that give this wine a new depth, complexity and vivacity. Living legend of Rioja which has survived three centuries, destined to break records for its surpr...

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A wine made with 85% Tempranillo and 15% Mazuelo.

This Castillo de Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 2010 from Marqués de Murrieta winery leaves us with a wine with a medium-high layer of a cherry red evolved somewhat, ruby rim in movement. This Graciano adds more color than in previous vintages.

The nose has a high intensity. Lots of red fruit, strawberries, blueberries, with some hints of coconut, perhaps a touch of herbs. Clove spice. Quality leather. Mineral, graphite. Very fine toast. A beast on the nose. Very complex.

The attack on the palate leaves us subtlety and elegance. It maintains freshness on the palate, good structure, and an herbaceous touch as in the nose. Wine with many years of life. Totally balanced. Tannin present, quite well done. Brutal bitterness on the finish. Very long.

Great wine, huge vintage of this Ygay Gran Reserva in this vintage 2010, as it could not be otherwise of the wines that come from the hand of this winery.

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Marvelous aromas of crushed berries, tobacco, cedar and mushrooms. Some dried cheese. Then turns to flowers. Very complex. Full and intense with fantastic depth and power. It goes on for minutes. It is a wine that exudes tradition but gives a sense of modernity with precise winemaking. Two years in oak, one in concrete and three or four in bottle. Drink on release and age onwards.

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Logroño, Rioja

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The wine shows an elegant range of aromas in which the strawberry and raspberry scents are enhanced with clove and nutmeg touches and hints of tea leaves, fine leather and graphite. In the palate, it is a deep, fresh and refined wine, with a long finish and velvety tannins. If there is something that stands out in this wine is above all, the perfect balance between all its components. “The excellence of the 2010 vintage has resulted in a Castillo Ygay we believe will unforgettable” María Vargas, Enóloga.

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