Vino Tinto Excellens Cuvée Especial
Red Wine Excellens Cuvée Especial with D.O. The Rioja. Made with Tempranillo grape. Peculiar character after 25 days skin maceration. A Crianza from Bodega Marqués de Cáceres.
90 Suckling
Age: Crianza
Winery: Bodegas Marqués de Cáceres.
Tasting note for Red Wine Excellens Cuvée Especial: The long maceration (25 days) gives a very peculiar character to this wine, coming from vineyards of Cenicero with a temperate Atlantic climate.
It is ruby with picota border and good glyceric tear.
Aromas of red fruit in season (raspberries, currants), wrapped in spicy notes (vanilla, light cinnamon), red licorice and beautiful nuances of toasted wood predominate.
On the palate, mature tannins stand out that give it a solid structure. The acidity makes him alive and he predicts a lot of life ahead of him. Good fruit weight in the route and long persistence.
Optimum service temperature: 16° C.
Pairing: Sirloin steak, grilled meat and vegetables, oxtail, Iberian cured meats and stewed meats.
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.