Marques de Caceres Rioja Gran Reserva 2014
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Intense color with a slightly brick-red border. Very complex bouquet of balsamic notes with fine wood notes. Full-bodied palate with ripe plum and sweet spices over toasted flavors. It maintains the freshness of a subtle vividness that promises excellent ageing potential. Flavorsome, full-bodied with a lingering finish.
Blend: 85% Tempranillo, 8% Garnacha tinta, 7% Graciano
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This wine showcases immense complexity and layers typical of a quality Gran Reserva from Rioja. The nose opens up with baking spices, balsamic notes, and a lingering chocolate note. The palate is rich and full with notes of dark plums, black cherries, and sweet spice. Firm, grippy tannins and a long finish round out this Spanish stunner.
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In 1970, Enrique Forner founded Marqués de Cáceres Unión Vitivinícola S.A., a historic alliance of growers in the village of Cenicero in the Rioja Alta subregion of Rioja. The enterprising Forner family has been devoted to the wine trade for five generations. Their search for the best vine growers and vineyards in Rioja and the introduction of a Bordeaux concept revolutionized the production and business model of the region. They work with one single objective: producing the highest quality wines. Today this obsession continues to be the leitmotif of Cristina Forner, the fifth generation of this distinguished wine family.
Hailed as the star red variety in Spain’s most celebrated wine region, Tempranillo from Rioja, or simply labeled, “Rioja,” produces elegant wines with complex notes of red and black fruit, crushed rock, leather, toast and tobacco, whose best examples are fully capable of decades of improvement in the cellar.
Rioja wines are typically a blend of fruit from its three sub-regions: Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental, although specific sub-region (zonas), village (municipios) and vineyard (viñedo singular) wines can now be labeled. Rioja Alta and Alavesa, at the highest elevations, are considered to be the source of the brightest, most elegant fruit, while grapes from the warmer and drier, Rioja Oriental, produce wines with deep color, great body and richness.