Marqu Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Rerva Especial 2010 |

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• MARQU MURRIETA CASTILLO YGAY GRAN RERVA ESPECIAL 2010
• CASTILLO YGAY 2010, THE BEST WINE IN THE WORLD
• CASTILLO YGAY 2010, THE BEST WINE IN THE WORLD
• MARQU MURRIETA CASTILLO YGAY GRAN RERVA ESPECIAL 2010 (750ML)
• CASTILLO YGAY GRAN RERVA 2010, RANKED NUMBER 1 WE THE WORLD BY WE SPECTATOR

MARQU MURRIETA CASTILLO YGAY GRAN RERVA ESPECIAL 2010

#1 We Spectator Top 100 of 2020 The Cebrián-Sagarriga fay, who 1983 acquired the Marqués Murrieta wery, tablished 1852, has a distct wemakg philosophy that is found the pursu of qualy and excellence through tradn and the ft vtag om the 741-acre Ygay Estate are ed to make Castillo Ygay. Limed productn and sought after all over the world, is the worthy choice for the wery's emblematic Castillo Ygay grap are manually harvted om an 80-year-old sgle-veyard lled La Plana, loted at the hight peak wh the Ygay Estate which surrounds the wery the southern pot of the Rja Alta we subzone.

CASTILLO YGAY 2010, THE BEST WINE IN THE WORLD

The tempranillo was harvted on October 6th and the mazuelo on October betifully wh wood pigeon braised red we, a, black pepper and Iberian ham fat; wagyu sirlo tartare, pers jam and soufflé potato; pil pil hake cheeks, dfi sh crispy sk and ndied crystal pepper; Molerno chee wh black tffl, sour cherry jam and Castillo Ygay red we. Drk on release and age 97Robert Parker's We AdvoteI had very high expectatns for the 2010 Castillo Ygay Gran Rerva Especial, and the we livered as expected. 2010 was one of the ft vtag Rja recent years, and this blend of Tempranillo wh 15% Mazuelo (Cariñena) has to be one of the ft morn day Castillo Ygays.

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The Ygay fs this template perfectly; plums and slo, hts of blueberry and ssis, then figs, a and sobois, a distct balsamic note to unrle provenance. The Pago La Plana is one of them, a flat ma at an elevatn of 1, 590 feet, wh close to 100 acr of v at the top of F Ygay. On the north si of the plate, the soil is limtone that hs solid rock five feet below, limg the peratn of water; the soil shifts to round river ston to the southwt, where the tempranillo and mazuelo v, planted 1950, have been the exclive source for Castillo Y gay sce 2001 (prr to that, the we clud other parcels on the 740-acre tate).

CASTILLO YGAY 2010, THE BEST WINE IN THE WORLD

The wery is near the southern tip of the Rja Alta the middle of the betiful Ygay Estate, a unique 300-hectare veyard that guarante plete ntrol over the grape source and is the key to the qualy and style of Marqu Murrieta w. Luciano was appoted Marqués Murrieta the 1870s, and grew his wemakg operatn by purchasg the Castillo Ygay tate 1872. Capellanía is one of only two wh ma at Murrieta; the other, Castillo Ygay Gran Rerva Especial, is even rarer, wh only 13 vtag released to date, the most recent of which is the 1986.

MARQU MURRIETA CASTILLO YGAY GRAN RERVA ESPECIAL 2010 (750ML)

Fally, Cebrián-Sagarriga and Vargas looked at the sgle-veyard Castillo Ygay Gran Rerva Especial. After two years, we ci if ’s gog to be Ygay or if ’s gog to Marqués Murrieta Rerva. If we ci will be Ygay, we leave for two more years barrel, followed by a mimum of one year ncrete, wh the grap, mostly Tempranillo wh some Mazuelo, already blend.

CASTILLO YGAY GRAN RERVA 2010, RANKED NUMBER 1 WE THE WORLD BY WE SPECTATOR

The 2010 Ygay, which is the current release, earned 96 pots on We Spectator’s 100-pot sle and retails for $139.