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I use this wine key: Forge de Laguiole Ebony
I have used this glass in this Video: Nude Glass Powerful Reds
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:
2017 Marques de Riscal Reserva Rioja Spain
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/marquis+de+riscal+rsrv+doca+rioja+alavesa+spain/2017?referring_site=KSB
The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 – 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 – 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 – 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 – 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 – 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.
Wine is fascinating. This year’s seasons will be captured by the grapes that grow in the vineyards. The wine that will be pressed in autumn will reflect today’s weather, viticulture, and winemaking techniques. In the year 2124 someone might open a bottle produced this year and will go: Damn, this is delicious.
Today I want to feel that feeling and share it with you as I am going to open three bottles, made by the same producer in the same region. The main difference: one is less than ten years old, one is 50 years old, and one is more than 100 years old… 110 years to be precise. So let’s travel back in time through the decades and the centuries…
The wines for this tasting were sold to me by Paul, a subscriber who collected them and wanted me to taste them in a video. Marques de Riscal is a well-known brand whose history goes back a long time. I tasted this wine from a different vintage in my first viral video a few years ago – and I liked it back then.
The title “Marqués” indicates nobility and hereditary privilege, while “de Riscal” refers to a specific land or place (Wikipedia)
During the Spanish civil wars of the mid-19th century, the Marqués de Riscal lived in Bordeaux (WSET) and when he returned, he applied their newfound expertise, including maturation in barriques – he also relied on the help of cellar master Jean Pineau who established the Bordeaux winemaking techniques at the winery.
Marqués de Riscal was founded in 1858, producing its first bottled wine in 1862, and they claim that those were the first bottled Rioja wine. In 1895, Riscal became the first non-French wine to receive a Diploma of Honor at the International Wine Exposition of Bordeaux. Phylloxera heavily impacted Rioja in 1899, reducing Riscal’s harvests from 1,000 tons to 75 tons between vintages of 1900 to 1906. Before Phylloxera devastated Rioja’s vineyards, it demolished France’s. Rioja’s wines, in both style and proximity to France, then served as a suitable replacement. To meet this new demand, many new wineries were founded, particularly around the railway station in Haro, to ship wine in bulk to France. Rioja became one of the most famous – if not the most famous – wine region in Spain.
21 Comments
With old wines how do you feel about a wine filter to remove cork and residue?
Very disappointing not to find my message that I wrote yesterday. Erasing messages from viewers just because you don’t like it is bad practice. You should accept critics, esp. from people like me who are wine and ancient wine lovers. Sad!!!!
Just to recap what I said: your video is unfortunately treating very badly old jewels. From the opening of the bottle to the comments you made about how you are creating an opposition between young and old wines is an insult to the history of winemaking, esp. coming from a MW. All viewers, including you, should view the videos of Francois Audouze, about how an ancient wine should be treated, tasted and understood. Coming to the conclusion that a young wine should be preferred to a 50 years or 110 years video is too simplistic. Absolutely disappointing from someone who claims to influence the world of wine. Embarrassing!!!
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I'd love to see more Rioja wines fratured on this channel! 🍷
'Woodn't be possible' 🙂
So filter it! No biggie.
My first '70 was a Cantenac Brown. Mind blowing.
What would be your recommendation for a dry Sauvignon Blanc at a budget price of £50.00? A lady to whom I presented a Vallpollicello Amarone asked me about my favourite white wine. I really couldn't say. I have enjoyed some of the pricy Italian whites at £25 with its white peaches etc. but my taste is limited by my financial reach.
That was very cool! I actally have a bottle of that from my parents, recognized the "gold cage". Its a 1985, think I'll go out and get a more recent bottle to have and compare one of these days. Great video….!
You should just get 3 or 4 twin blades corkscrews. They cost about $5 and work almost as well as a Durand.
Good wine, 10 years is usually not enough. 20 is my go to.
Frankly I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just stop filming and find the right tool to open such bottles.
The 50 years old cork probably would have done the same with the Durand. Two alternatives. (1) the air pump system (no, I don't mean Coravin). (2) special pliers that are heated and enable to neck of the bottle to be broken off just below or at the bottom of the cork (if done well, without cutting you get an extremely clean cut!)
In this case, the air pump would have been the simplest and worked really well.
Will a Marques De Riscal 1989 be good/diccicult to uncork (perfectly stored)?
My experience drinking aged wine is that its taste sucks, its colour sucks, its cork sucks, and if some of those wine solid deposits make it to your mouth…damn…
There are some excellent Rjojas. But still too many oak monsters from that region.
I frequently get surprised about just how well Rioja’s generally age. Sometimes also how slowly they mature. I wonder how much is down to oak tannins and how much is winemaking and how much is grape and how much is chalky soils and a terroir that makes balanced grapes. Probably a combo. Either way, fascinating.
I frequently get surprised about just how well Rioja’s generally age. Sometimes also how slowly they mature. I wonder how much is down to oak tannins and how much is winemaking and how much is grape and how much is chalky soils and a terroir that makes balanced grapes. Probably a combo. Either way, fascinating.
Definately an iconic label and always a quality buy for the price.
I like both styles. Truly fascinating and thank you so much for sharing this experience with us
A very interesting tasting mostly ruined by the way you destroyed those corks. I must admit the lack of respect you showed to those historical bottles annoyed me and found it unacceptable coming from a professional. I wonder if you would have shown the same disrespect had the wines being German.