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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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The philosophy at Marques de Vargas favours nature’s wisdom over man’s meddling. No pesticides or herbicides are used in the vineyard and the wine is bottled without fining or filtration, resulting in a wholly natural finished article. The colour is deep cherry with a dark chocolate character at the rim. The nose is rich with notes of blackberries, mulberries and violets. The palate reveals multiple layers of fruit, sweet but firm tannins and good concentration. The finish is lengthy and balanced with just a hint of the rusticity alluded to in the production notes.
Nicholas Stewart, Buying Department
In the heart of the Ebro valley in Rioja, just outside the famous wine town of Logrono are located three famous wine Bodegas, known as the Three Marquis; the other two eponymous dignitaries being Murietta and Riscal. Marqués de Vargas is a single, large vineyard, covering over 65 hectares, all of which are extremely well located and the property produces benchmark Riojas.
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