Bodegas Marqués de Murrieta explained

Bodegas Marqués de Murrieta is a Spanish winery, located in the Rioja region, near Logroño. The winery was founded in 1852 by Peruvian-born Luciano de Murrieta y Garcia-Lemoine, 1st Marquess of Murrieta, and was the first Rioja estate to export its wines.[1] [2] In 1872, he purchased the Castillo Ygay estate, where the wines are produced today.[3] The firm was purchased in 1983 by Vicente Cebrián Sagarriga, and since his death has been run by his son, Vicente Dalmau Cebrián.[4] The chief winemaker is María Vargas.[5]

Jancis Robinson has described Marqués de Murrieta as belonging to "the Rioja aristocracy", along with La Rioja Alta, CVNE, López de Heredia, Muga and Marqués de Riscal.[6] Karen MacNeil described it as "one of the oldest and most prestigious bodegas in Rioja".[7]

The estate's most well-known wine is its Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial, but it is also known as one of the few Rioja producers to still make traditional oak-aged white wines.[8] Its "Dalmau" Reserva release contains a proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon and is aged in French barriques.

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  1. Web site: Wine Legend: Marques de Murrieta, Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 1925 . Brook . Stephen . 24 July 2016.
  2. Web site: Marques de Murrieta . 2018-09-01 . 2018-09-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180902011822/https://www.marquesdemurrieta.com/bodegas-rioja/en/ . dead .
  3. Book: Jeffs, Julian . The Wines of Spain . Hachette . 2006.
  4. Web site: Marqués de Murrieta, Rioja, Spain . 2018-09-01.
  5. Web site: The World's Most Influential Women in Wine . 8 March 2018 . 2018-09-01.
  6. Web site: Rioja . Robinson . Jancis . 2018-09-01.
  7. Book: MacNeil, Karen . The Wine Bible . Workman . 2001 . 417.
  8. News: Moore. Victoria. Rioja. 16 August 2012. The Guardian. 29 March 2008.