Marqués de Griñón Selección Especial 2016

 Tasting Notes:

• Color: Ruby red intense.
• Nose: Red fruit and notes of his upbringing.
• Mouth: Round, very balanced and tasty, with a predominance of vanilla notes that support your upbringing.

Elaboration and Aging:

100% made with grapes Tempranillo Specially selected and destemmed from the Rioja Alta , Concretely of the vineyards of the localities of Najera, Arenzana, Manjares and Urunuela. The breeding is of 18 months in barrels Of American oak.

Curiosities:

The Marques de Grinon , Associated with its excellent wines of the payments Domain of Valdepusa And El Rincon in the mountains of Toledo, returns this year to make their own wines in the DO.Ca.Rioja where until now had ceded its brand to a third.

The Marques de Grinon has been one of the pioneers in the modernization of viticulture and wine in Spain. He graduated in Agronomy Engineering at the University of Leuven (Belgium), and later also at Davis University (California). In 1974 he introduced in Spain the Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grape varieties, which later extended to Chardonnay, Petit Verdot and Syrah.

In 2015 the milestone is the recovery of winemaking in Rioja and in Rueda, returning to a path that already took important steps in the 1980s and 90s. A proof of the constancy and enormous vitality of this man Affable, great talkative and tireless. The "Special Selection" is born from this thesis, which has nothing to do with the wines that until now took their name in Rioja.