Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja DOCa - Bodegas Montecillo

In the glass, the Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja from Bodegas Montecillo reveals a bright ruby color. also shows a color transition to garnet red. If you swirl the glass, you can perceive a perfect balance in this red wine, because it stands out on the glass walls neither watery nor syrupy or liqueur-like. In the glass, this red wine from Bodegas Montecillo offers aromas of plums, black cherries, blackberries, morello cherries and mulberries, complemented by oriental spices, cocoa bean and gingerbread spice. Bodegas Montecillo Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja delights with its elegantly dry flavor. It was bottled with only 2 grams of residual sugar. This is a real quality wine, which clearly stands out from simpler qualities and so this Spaniard enchants naturally with all dryness with the finest balance. Taste does not necessarily need sugar. Balanced and multifaceted, this silky red wine presents itself on the palate. Due to the moderate fruit acidity, the Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja flatters with a pleasing mouthfeel, without lacking freshness. The finish of this red wine with good aging potential from the wine-growing region of La Rioja, more precisely from the Rioja DOCa, finally thrills with considerable reverberation. The finish is also accompanied by mineral hints of the soils dominated by clay and limestone.

Vinification of the Bodegas Montecillo Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja

The basis for the balanced Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja from La Rioja are grapes from the Tempranillo grape variety. In La Rioja, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on soils of clay and limestone. Clearly, the Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja is also determined by more than just the Rioja DOCa soil. This Spaniard can be described as an Old World wine in the best sense of the word, with an exceptionally complex presentation. The grapes for this red wine from Spain, when perfectly ripe, are harvested exclusively by hand. After the hand harvest, the grapes quickly reach the press house. Here they are selected and gently broken up. This is followed by fermentation in small wood at controlled temperatures. After the end of fermentation, the Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja is aged for another 26 months in French and American oak barrels. The aging in barrel is followed by a long aging in bottle, which makes this red wine even more complex.

Food recommendation for the Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja from Bodegas Montecillo

Enjoy this red wine from Spain ideally tempered at 15 - 18 ° C as a companion to roasted calf's liver with apples, onions and balsamic vinegar sauce, boeuf bourguignon or pumpkin casserole.

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