1978 Marqués de Murrieta Rioja Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial

Community Tasting Notes (63) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  3/18/2024 - acidqueen wrote: 95 Points

  Strikingly good bottle. Bright brick red. Decanted one hour. Deep ripe black cherry framed by the faintest old American oak. Leather, rich black earth, cigar wrapper and iron. Fine acidity. Long finish. Very elegant. So Rioja and so good. This is wonderful now but will probably stay at this level for some time. Not sure it is worth waiting though. Terrific now.

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  7/4/2023 - acidqueen wrote: 94 Points

  First bottle since 2017. Deep red with orange edges. Cherry syrup with leather, wood, acid and earth. This is obviously more advanced than my first bottle 12 years ago and it is drinking well in a later stage style. I do miss that vibrant fruit profile from 2011 though. A very very good wine. I would drink this now and over next 5-ish years.

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  6/25/2022 - Boone's Farm Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Did not do this wine justice. Looking for a wine to drink at the end of the meal and we opened it and did not decant. The wine was very good but needed air.

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  6/20/2021 - Boone's Farm Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Black fruit, earth, Asian spices, and hints of cherry and rose petals. Round and complete. Consumed side by side with a 1982 CVNE Real and thought aromatics on the CVNE were better, the Castillo Ygay was a richer, denser, more complete wine.

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  5/22/2021 - eagreni wrote: 96 Points

  I know there is a lot of bottle variation of this wine, and I was a little anxious upon opening how this bottle would show. Luckily there was no need to worry.
  
  It started off a little shy and reserved, but after an hour in the decanter it was really singing and dancing in flirtatiuos ways. Complex nose. Of course figs and dates, but also red cherries and ripe wild strawberries, wild strawberries of the type that have lain a little in the sun and got a hint of something sweetly oxidative. Also beautiful spices, a bit like I can imagine it smells like at a bazaar in Marrakesh. In addition, sweet pipe tobacco, butter caramel, hints of apricot and orange peel, leather and forest floor. In the mouth, the wine is delicate and a little fragile. Subtle. Completely worn tannins, high acidity, concentrated, very long. A complex, balanced, sensual and seductive mature wine. The wine is probably at its peak now, but good bottles, like this one, will probably last for at least 10 more years. A truly fantastic wine!

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