Marqués de Cáceres Reserva

Marqués de Cáceres Reserva is a red wine made by the winery Marqués de Cáceres in D.O. Rioja.
This family-run winery offers traditional and quality wines. It is located in Cenicero, a town in the north of Rioja.
Marqués de Cáceres Reserva is made with the varieties Tempranillo, Red Grenache and Graciano. The grapes come from a selection of plots of old vines between 25 and 35 years old from Rioja Alta and Rioja Alavesa. The vineyards have a very low yield, of around 35 hl/ha, on average.
The soil where the vineyards are planted is predominantly clayey-calcareous.
The harvest is completely manual, plot by plot.
For its production, the bunches are crushed and destemmed for a fermentation at a controlled temperature that starts at 10ºC and ends at 28ºC. After this process, a long maceration of 25 days is carried out with the skins. This way, the tannic structure and the extraction of aromas and colour are enhanced.
After the vinification, the wine undergoes a long ageing of 20 months in French split oak barrels with racking every 6 months.
Finally, before you can enjoy it, Marqués de Cáceres Reserva goes through another 2 years of ageing in the bottle, where it refines all its qualities.