Marqués de Murrieta

Rioja, Spain

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Taste a white wine from the fresh vineyards of Spain

$31.00

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About This Wine

Marqués de Murrieta

Capellanía Viura

A limited-production wine kept for a year and a half in new oak and one year in the bottle — giving an astonishing complexity, structure, and elegance. The result is a surprising white wine of great bouquet, a white wine of character born to surprise by its uniqueness and perfect to accompany a great variety of rich dishes, with a magnificent potential to evolve and last gracefully in the bottle. Grapes are first crushed, and after short skin contact, they are gently pressed in a vertical press. This is a gentle and slow process that favors the extraction of all the aromatic potential from the low-yield Viura grapes.

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Marqués de Murrieta 2014 Capellanía Viura Rioja DOC, Spain

Wine Region

Rioja

If you want to understand Spain, pour yourself a glass of Rioja. This historic northern region produces some of the country's most famous wines, typically mature, savory reds that go majestically with roast lamb. Rioja's vineyards trace the flow of the Ebro River through a valley protected by the nearby Cantabrian Mountains. Tempranillo, Garnacha and Graciano are the key red grapes, with Viura leading the white grapes. There are three main classifications of red wines: Gran Reserva (aged for five years, at least two in barrel), Reserva (aged for three years, one in barrel), and Crianza (aged for two years, one in barrel). Other wines can be young and unoaked—an increasingly popular style that shows off Rioja's modern face.