1971 Marqués de Murrieta Rioja Ygay Etiqueta Blanca

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 87 points

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  12/19/2022 - NathanGaby wrote: 81 Points

  Sadly the wine is over the hill. At some point I am sure it was fine, the wine is much too old now. Mostly tertiary, no fruit, and maybe borderline vinegar flavors. Should have drunk some time ago.

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  1/16/2017 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Dim Sum Club at Summer Pavilion (Summer Pavilion, Ritz Carlton, Singapore): I really liked the nose on this - classic Rioja, with vanilla and roasted coconut, sprigs of dill, lovely fragrant spice, and then a glow of sweet dried cherry and strawberry aromas, all tinged with an aged sous bois funk. The palate was clearly old but had an ageless liveliness to it, with a spine of lovely fresh acidity racing through sweet, juicy flavours of dried red berries and preserved fruit peel. American oak tannins still lent the palate a little chew, but it was really the freshness that carried the wine all the way into a lovely finish of spice, earth and herb. This had that glowing sweetness of old Rioja wed to a lovely liveliness that made it a real pleasure to drink. Lovely stuff, showing wonderfully now.

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  3/25/2016 - forceberry wrote:

  To my understanding, this is only a Crianza-level Rioja red.
  
  Almost fully opaque and very developed maroon red with old mahogany overtones. The nose feels pungent and oxidative with rather savory and very tertiary aromas of dried figs, some leather, a little bit of soy sauce and a hint of nutty rancio. The wine is dry, old and moderately full-bodied on the palate with dry and quite bitter flavors of dried figs, sour cherries, some tart cranberries, a little bit of salt-cured beef and salty soy sauce along with a nutty hint of rancio. The wine is still very structured with its high acidity and still very firm and grippy tannins. The finish is dry, bitter and quite tannic with old rancio flavors of sour cherries, cranberries, some soy sauce, a little bit of leather and a hint of tangy aldehydic salinity.
  
  A still somewhat drinkable but already quite dead Murrieta red. The structure has survived remarkably well here, alas the taste has not. The wine isn't thoroughly shot or oxidized yet, but the flavor department is pretty much flat and in pieces, getting slowly overwhelmed by the tangy salinity of Sherry-like acetaldehyde. This wine should've been drunk 10-15 years ago.

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