Red Wine Marqués de Cáceres Reserva 2018|D.O. La Rioja|Vinos Covigran

Vino Tinto Marqués de Cáceres Reserva

Red Wine Marqués de Cáceres Reserva with D.O. La Rioja. Made with Tempranillo and Garnacha grapes. An elegant Reserva from Bodegas Marqués de Cáceres, with volume and silkiness.

92 Tim Atkin | 91 Suckling

Bottles per box
6
Bottle
0.75 l
Origin
La Rioja
Type of grape
Tempranillo, Garnacha
Elaboration
Reserva
61
New
 

Age: Reserva.

Winery: Bodegas Marqués de Cáceres.

Type of wood and time of passage: 20 months in French oak barrels (1/3 new each year).

Tasting notes for Red Wine Marqués de Cáceres Reserva: 

Sight-Vinos-Covigran

Cherry colour with ruby border, medium-high layer.

Nose-Vinos-Covigran

Presents aromas of red and black fruits (currants, raspberries, blueberries) wrapped in notes of cocoa, aromatic woods (cedar) and sweet spices (vanilla, nutmeg, cardamom).

Mouth-Vinos-Covigran

It is elegant, pleasant, with the wood completely integrated in the wine, pleasant dairy products that give it volume and silkiness. Round and long, with memories of fine hides and spices in retronasal.

Optimum service temperature: 15° C.

A pairing: Lechazo al horno con patatas panaderas.

Ingredients: 1 leg and a shoulder of lamb, lard, water, vinegar, a sprig of rosemary, 4 potatoes and an onion.

Elaboration:

- Preheat the oven to 150° C.

- Season the lamb with a little salt and then varnish it with a little lard.

- Place the lamb in a baking dish in which we put a glass of water and a tablespoon of vinegar. Bake for about 1 and a half hours, turning it around every 20 minutes so that it cooks evenly.

- When there are 40 minutes left, we prepare the baked potatoes.

- To do this, cut the onion in thin julienne and sauté it in a frying pan without letting it take color, until they are transparent.

- Peel the potatoes and cut them into thick slices, about 1/2 cm.

- In another baking dish, mix the potatoes with the poached onions and season.

- Put the dish in the oven next to the lamb allowing it to bake while the lamb finishes roasting.

- Top the lamb by raising the temperature to get a golden and crunchy finish.

 Serves with a glass of Marqués de Cáceres Reserva. To enjoy!

Bottles per box
6
Bottle
0.75 l
Origin
La Rioja
Type of grape
Tempranillo, Garnacha
Elaboration
Reserva
61
New

Marqués de Cáceres follows the line of the wines of great typicity inheritance of the bordeleses who came to settle in Rioja in search of good grapes for their wines after the epidemic of the phylloxera that ravaged the French vineyard.However, a century ago (and less) the majority of the Rioja vineyard was white grape. The Forner Family, with a French feeling, now with Cristina Forner at the helm, continues to innovate to stay among the best valued and most recognized by the consumer wineries.

And it happened that in 1939 after the end of the Civil War, the country was an absolute chaos, there were problems to hire grape pickers and some grapes remained in the vineyard until November, developing some of them "noble rot", that is to say, were infected by a fungus called botrytis. With sweet and concentrated grapes of the Viura variety (although it could also be a minority of Malvasía or Garnacha Blanca) they began to make sweet and semi-sweet wines.

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