MARQUES DE RISCAL Rioja 150th Anniversary Gran Reserva, Riscal 2001 Grape Varieties 85% Tempranillo 10% Graciano 5% Other Food Matching Note: This wine pairs well with ham,mature cheeses, red meat, all kinds of roasts and grills and game casseroles. Tasting Note: Marqués de Riscal 150 Aniversario is a dark-cherry coloured wine with brick red hues. Its aroma is complex and balsamic, with burnt wood and hints of spices such as black pepper and cinnamon. It has an oily mouth-feel, with good backbone and concentration of tannins, round and supple with a long, silky finish. Vinification Note: In order to make this commemorative wine the bodega’s technical team carefully selected the best grapes of the 2001 harvest, ranked as the first Excellent vintage of the 21st century, with a quality only matched by the legendary harvest of 1964.. Marqués de Riscal 150 Aniversario, a perfect combination of tradition and modernity, is a wine with which the oldest Rioja bodega is seeking to continue to add another line in the History of Wine of the 21st Century. After the grapes have been through the sorting tables so as to remove any grapes which are not totally healthy and ripe, alcoholic fermentation takes place, at a controlled temperature of no more than 26ºC with the total time in the vat amounting to 14 days. Once the blend has been determined for this special type of wine, it was put into oak casks and aged for 32 months, followed by a further 3 years’ rounding off in the bottle, thereby completing the process of maturation and polishing of the tannins so as to obtain a rounded, balanced wine which is at the same time powerful and easy for the consumer to drink. Find this wine at www.winestore.co.uk Price: £45.59 (Including VAT at 20%)