Red Wine Marqués de Cáceres MC from D.O. The Rioja. Made with Tempranillo grape. A Crianza wine from Bodegas Marqués de Cáceres, aged for 15 months in French oak barrels and at least 6 in bottle.
Winery: Bodegas Marqués de Cáceres.
Tasting notes for Red Wine Marqués de Cáceres MC:
Cherry red color with violet tones and stained tear.
The fruit is the protagonist: with marked aromas of plums and ripe blackberries wrapped in spicy notes (vanilla, pepper), roasted touches and memories of mocha.
The attack is frank, with a lively and fresh step where the fruit returns on a balsamic background and a pleasant acidity that gives it a lot of freshness. Slightly bitter finish very nice and elegant.
Optimum service temperature: 16° C.
Pairing: Roasted or grilled red meats, as well as light game dishes and foie gras. Cured cheeses and mushroom dishes.
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.
