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1994 Bodegas Montecillo Gran Reserva
- Rioja DOCa, Spain
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- Most Recent Global Avg Price (ex-tax)
- $ 105 / 750ml
- From January 2024
- Red - Savory and Classic
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Critic tasting note: "This mature wine shows a touch of brown at the edge and a handsome cedar, tobacco and herb nose. The finely tuned palate has good fruit-to-acid balance, and the tasty dried cherry and plum flavors are complemented by more cedar and tobacco. Lean and elegant, best drunk now through 2006. Editors' Choice. —M.M." - 89/100, Wine Enthusiast
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Bodegas Montecillo is a winery in the Rioja region of Spain founded in 1870 in Fuenmayor in La Rioja Alta. It has been owned since 1973 by the Osborne family. It is perhaps best known for its extensive choice of Reserva and Gra...
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- Region or Appellation
- Producer Notes
- One hundred and fifty years after its foundation, Bodegas Montecillo continues to demonstrate its commitment to excellence and its focus on producing maximum quality wines year aer year. Montecillo Gran Reserva is a classic Rioja, full of flavour and elegantly complex.
- Drinking Window
- 2002-2020
- Alcohol ABV
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13%
- Sweetness
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Dry
- Blend
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Tempranillo & Graciano
- Maturation
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Oaked
- Oak Type
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American, French
- Ownership
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Osborne
- Closure Type
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Cork
- Vineyard Notes
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This wine comes from plots of bush-trained vines on poor, sandy textured soils in the Rioja Alta area. The vines are an average of more than 35 years old and low yields.
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- Winemaking
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Grapes are harvested with great care and transported to the winery in small containers. Alcoholic fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks at a controlled temperature of 28ºC, with prior bleeding-off and a long maceration of three weeks in contact with the skins.
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- Ageing
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Ageing in French and American oak barrels (90%-10%) over 28 months, followed by subsequent bottle conditioning for at least 4 years until it is leaves the winery.
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(2)About the Wine
Suggested Dishes to Pair With This Wine
- Lamb kreatopita Starter Course
- Meat in filo pastry
- Contains: lamb mince
- Greek
- Hereford T-bone Main Course
- Marbled and tender
- Western
- Shorthorn bone-in-ribeye steak Main Course
- Intense and tender
- Western
- Manchego Cheese Course
- Spanish
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Vintage quality: Legendary
Current condition: Ready to drink
The 1994 Spanish vintage was extremely good.
A warm winter prompted early budding but April frosts drastically hindered development. The summer was warm, broken only by the occasional storm, which, after three years of drought, were more than welcome. The harvest be...
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