Found in one of those $10 sections of a gas station convenience store. Kind of forgot about it and it sat for a couple of years until we decided to open it. It’s fantastic, but does it really cost about $100? Or does it just taste amazing because the internet tells me it’s expensive?
I am a total amateur here – I love wine but I just buy what I like and usually stick to $20 bottles.
by doyouneedacookie
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It’s more like a $30 bottle that just doesn’t have many people that aged it that long, so very little available pricing.
But I bet its damn good. Their baseline level wine was a real discovery at like $10 when I was in grad school.
I would never have expected a gas station to have decades old rioja. I wonder where they got it from. Is that 86 or 88?
Marqués de Cáceres is one of the bottles that made me be into wine along with Marqués del Riscal.
They used to be $10 but now they’re $16-18. Still a great value. And this ‘86 for $10? That’s really a great find. How did it taste? How long you waited before really taking a big gulp?
Great find! Those Gran Reservas are consistently a bargain and easily age for decades, but I’m pleasantly surprised it lasted 40 years in a gas station, even assuming 24/7 A/C.