About this WINE
Marylebone Cricket Club
Berry Bros. & Rudd have specially selected a range of wines for the MCC to enjoy over the coming season. We can trace our origins back to 1698 when the Widow Bourne founded her shop opposite St James’s Palace and today the present generation of Berrys and Rudds continue to manage our family-owned wine merchant from the same premises at 3 St James’s Street, London.
The MCC range includes a marvellous Pinot Noir from Domaine de Coudulet in Southern France, a Chilean Sauvignon Blanc from the premium region of Casablanca Valley, a Picpoul de Pinet from the Languedoc in France that is a heavenly match for sea food, a fine 100% Chardonnay from Burgundy, a classical Rioja which is sublime with robust hearty dishes and an Australian Shiraz from one of the great estates in Barossa, Elderton.
Tempranillo/Tinto Fino
A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.
Tempranillo-based wines tend to have a spicy, herbal, tobacco-like character accompanied by ripe strawberry and red cherry fruits. It produces fresh, vibrantly fruit driven "jovenes" meant for drinking young. However Tempranillo really comes into its own when oak aged, as with the top Riojas where its flavours seem to harmonise perfectly with both French and American oak, producing rich, powerful and concentrated wines which can be extraordinarily long-lived.
In Ribera del Duero it generally sees less oak - the exception being Vega Sicilia where it is blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and then aged for an astonishing 7 years in oak and is unquestionably one of the world`s greatest wines.
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Bottled by Bodegas el Cidacos for the Marylebone Cricket Club, this wine is a blend of 80% Tempranillo and 20% Garnacha which is aged for two years, spending 12 months in oak casks. It has hints of red fruits and spice all enveloped with vanilla and cigar-box aromas. It is a benchmark Rioja to be enjoyed as an aperitif, with red meats or robust hearty dishes.
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