1968 Marqués de Murrieta Rioja Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial

Community Tasting Notes (23) Median Score: 94 points

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  1/27/2023 - GeirArneLangkas Likes this wine: 97 Points

  This was an old, smooth, frendly and atletic type, not forgotten his dancemoves

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  3/25/2021 - firstgrowth Likes this wine: 85 Points

  A little cough syrupy but smoothed out for about an hour

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  5/6/2020 - skurtz wrote: 87 Points

  Purchased at auction, opened for my 52nd birthday. Soggy cork, used an ah-so, still broke in half. Decanted. I had high hopes, based on the last few reviews, but this was (for me at least) way past its prime. Decanted for 6h and sampled throughout. Interesting camphor, cedary alcohol nose, on the palate stewed cranberry at first, then after a few hours the cranberries and sour cherries evolved into focus. Definitely tart, not my style, but which my wife appreciated - "it's not bad, it would be perfect for stew." So there you have it, very very expensive cooking wine. Looking forward to some really good boeuf bourgignon for dinner tomorrow night! For me this was super entertaining and academically interesting, but not an experiment I care repeating, at least not with another 50+ year old Rioja.

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  1/12/2019 - jdhannah Likes this wine:

  Drank well on opening. Great nose. Over 20+ minutes in the glass, turned sweeter and a bit port like. Not to my taste then though very drinkable and some liked. Great for 50 years but vs 5 other 68s it was middle of the pack for most. Better than the 68 CVNE but outshined by Napa -- Charles Krug and Heitz

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  2/2/2017 - andtheodor wrote: 96 Points

  Much better than the last bottle of this tasted. Transparent bright orange brick color. Knockout nose of potpourri, heavy on the dried orange peel, tea, just classic Ygay. Palate has great juicy sweet cherry acidity, punchy, silken, and seamless, barely a hint of its true age. The most amazing aspect was how the flavor and acidity build and crescendo well after swallowing, just saturating every crevice with tangerine sweetness. Bottled in 1983 and released in 1987.

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