Fab 05 top Rioja @ £70-100 in a great year & a fav of mine - will keep improving but great now 😉 Awesome 2020-30 👍
📍 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 2005
🏵 95 points w/ 96-98 potential
🍇 89% Tempranillo & 11% Mazuelo
🍷 Deep ruby
👃 Soft oak through dark spiced berries, currants & cherry with creamy vanilla, light smoked tobacco, leather, mocha, coconut, mint & balsamic into choc cherry gateaux w/ a bit of date coming through
👄 Med+ body of deluxe silky smooth creamy stewed rich dark cherry driven fruits all perfectly balanced w/ thick cocoa cream, vanilla & balsamic touch
🎯 Long seductive oak, cocoa, balsamic & dark fruit cherry boom linger — 7 years ago
Outstanding. Refined, balanced and ready to drink. 2003 in 12/16. — 9 years ago
Sweet and bubbly...so delicious! — 10 years ago
2009 Vintage - fantastic — 10 years ago
Absolutely loved it. Perfect for my taste. — 11 years ago
Buff muy muy bueno!!! — 11 years ago
Excellente — 12 years ago
Really enjoyed — 13 years ago
Very smooth and good with spicy and red meat — 7 years ago
Good, had at Hoxley and Porter — 8 years ago
Good red fruit earth tannins — 9 years ago
Analysis not yet completed — 10 years ago
Very rich and fruity, cherry and raspberry. — 10 years ago
Delicious wine...1995...worth carrying back from Portugal — 11 years ago
Best Rioja I've ever had. '05. — 11 years ago
2001 Rioja 这瓶酒是误开的,当天没有时间喝,就把瓶塞盖回去。 两天后喝,它充满香草,咖啡,李子,樱桃,皮革,麝香,惊讶它几乎像黑皮诺,只是颜色略微深一些。口感圆润,花果,橡木,单宁酸度都已经融合一起,有八角,黑胡椒,大吉岭红茶的底蕴。不愧为西班牙的骄傲。以性价比来说真的是值得。 喝它的时候我想到了香港的“腐乳通菜”(空心菜),和台湾的牛肉面。 — 12 years ago
Pêra Manca — 13 years ago
Smooth and full bodied. Delicious, will buy again. — 7 years ago
Smokey with oak notes — 7 years ago
Lovely nose of dried fruit and nuts, soft and elegant on the plate, with a hint of dryness on the finish. Layered on the palate and lingers in the mouth. -En Rama NYC popup — 7 years ago
So interesting; a breadth of freshness with apricot, peach, ginger and pine nuts. Super delicious — 9 years ago
Joy had this 9 years ago
Nice one. Love it! — 10 years ago
It goes on and on and on. Good gran reserva, Marques de caceres shouldn't ever be passed up — 11 years ago
The best white wine in Portugal. — 11 years ago
Fantastic light local red at Botequim da Mouraria. — 12 years ago
Muy buen vino, toque madera, balanceado, sabor largo — 13 years ago
Guthrie Raimondo
Dry sherry flavor with a bit of funk — 6 years ago