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J'adore cette étiquette!!!
Le vin a passé 1 heure en carafe chez moi avant d’aller au resto. Pas de dépôt dans la bouteille.
L’œil : Un rouge rubis assez foncé et profond.
Le nez : c’est très charmeur. Il y a des bleuets, un peu de vanille et du chocolat.
En bouche : WOW, C’est super équilibré et velouté en bouche. Il y a des fruits noirs et des notes café et de tabac. Les tannins sont bien enrobés et il y a une belle touche d’acidité. La finale est longue, très gouteuse et très soyeuse, rien n’accroche. MAGNIFIQUE!!!
Un très beau vin complexe, impressionnant, droit et de belle facture qui peut vieillir en beauté plusieurs dizaines d'années. On a vraiment tous adoré ce nectar de très haut calibre, tant de gens du même avis ne peuvent avoir tort...comme dirais l'autre!!!
D'ailleurs, Chris Kissack (The Wine Doctor), fait une belle analyse de ce grandiose vin, voici un résumé de ses commentaires ici:
http://www.thewinedoctor.com/spain/marq ... ieta.shtmlThe Wine Doctor a écrit :Marqués de Murrieta Rioja Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 2001: Like the 1989, poured from a double magnum. Also like the 1989, another vintage that I have resting in my cellar. Quite a concentrated hue on inspection. There is a good richness evident on the nose, sweet with a slightly cooked fruit character, intense, full of appeal, with a complex gamey style behind it. To my mind the palate is still painfully primary, full of concentrated linear fruit, supple substance and a fine, linear definition to the structure. I think there is remarkable potential here, but it would be easy to dismiss its intense, high-toned, slightly stewed substance at this early juncture; but give it another 10-20 years and this could well be magnificent. From a tasting with Handford Wines. 18.5+/20
Informations complémentaires:
Ce vin est vinifié seulement dans les grands millésimes. Depuis 1978, ce vin a été embouteillé seulement dans 6 millésimes jugés de niveau assez grands pour la cuvée Especial. Composé de Tempranillo :93% et Mazuelo : 7%. Le vin a passé 31 mois en barrique de chêne et un autre 10 mois en barrique neuves. Le vin passe un autre 3 ans minimum en bouteille avant d’être mis en marché. Définitivement un grand vin d'une grande maison!!!
Spécifications:
Alcool: 14%
Acidité : 5.7 g/L
Acidité volatile : 0.81 g/L
PH : 3.43
Sucre résiduel : 2.1 g/L
SO2 : 119 mg/L
Fiche technique complète:
Description du vignoble et de ce grand vin:
(tiré de The Wine Doctor: http://www.thewinedoctor.com)
Bodegas Marqués de Murrieta
Bodegas Marqués de Murrieta was founded by Luciano Francisco Ramon de Murrieta, a man born in Peru, of all places, in 1822. His life in South America was short-lived, however, as in 1824 the battle of Ayacucho saw Peru secure its independence from the Spaniards, and the Murrieta family left for a new life in England. Here Luciano spent a lot of time with his uncle, General Rivero de Murrieta, who worked in the city as a banker, and reputedly had spent much of his life acquainting himself with the fine wines of the world. With his coming of age, however, Luciano enlisted in the Spanish armed forces, although he continued to live his life between Spain and London. As a consequence Luciano was conscious not only of a wine-thirsty market in London, but also of the huge quantity and diversity of wines that Spain potentially had to offer; when Luciano returned to Spain for good in 1844, the die was cast. Luciano had decided to make great wine, and to export it to discerning customers worldwide.
In 1848 he travelled to Bordeaux, to study; four years later he had returned to Rioja and was making wine. Another four years saw the first serious commercial exploit, as Murrieta waved goodbye to 100 barrels of Rioja, en route for Mexico and Cuba. Although one half of the cargo was lost, what reached the shore was a resounding success. Luciano continued in wine, and eventually, in 1878, he purchased his own estate at Ygay, not far from Logroño. His venture was a resounding success, sufficiently so for Queen Isabel II, who had enticed her loyal servant back to Spain following her coronation in 1844, to confer on him the title of Marquesado de Murrieta; and so the estate of Marqués de Murrieta was born.
Luciano died a bachelor in 1911, at the venerable age of 89, and the estate passed to his nephew, Julián de Olivares, who held tenure until his death in 1977. The estate was then sold to Vicente Cebrián Sagarriga, Count of Creixell. Tragically, death once again stole the estate of its proprietor, and Vicente's widow and children took the helm. It is Vicente's son, Vicente Dalmau Cebrián-Sagarriga, with his sister Cristina, that now drives the estate forward, together with their whirlwind technical director Maria Vargas.
Marqués de Murrieta: The Vines and the Wines
Marqués de Murrieta produces a range of wines, both red and white. Heading up the collection is a wine destined for long term cellaring, the Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial, which is probably one of the most well-known wines produced here, if not in the whole of Rioja. It is a traditional Tempranillo dominated blend, which following on from six months in vat will often see in excess of 36 months in American oak before bottling. There is also a Reserva Especial, a similar blend also subject to prolonged wood ageing; both wines are only made in the best vintages, otherwise Marqués de Murrieta will produce a range of standard Gran Reservas and Reservas. There are also jóvene red and white wines, under the Colección 2100 label. The white is 90% Viura with 5% each Malvasia and Garnacha Blanca, whereas the red is 75% Tempranillo, the balance Mazuelo, then Garnacha, then a little Graciano. Overall this bodega is a reliable source of classic, long-ageing reds, and the Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva certainly has a place in my cellar; the 1989 has been excellent, whereas the 1995, representing one of the finer vintages of the last two decades, demonstrates potential at present. They are both, however, suitable for cellaring for much longer periods of time. Marqués de Murrieta also has a reputation as a rare source of reliable white Rioja, including a white Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva; in recent years there has also been the Capellania Rioja Reserva Blanco, indicating the vineyard of origin, a wine I have tasted several times but, despite this, until I visited the Marqués de Murrieta estate I don't seem to have made a permanent record of my impressions. Around the same time as this new designation, essentially a renaming of the pre-existing white Rioja Reserva, the range saw a genuinely new introduction. Dalmau is a Rioja Reserva, joining the fray in the 1995 vintage, which swells the ranks of more modern, internationally styled wines produced by many of the top Rioja bodegas. This is distinguished from the pre-existing portfolio not only by the inclusion of 10% Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend, alongside the 85% Tempranillo and 5% Graciano, but also by the use of small French barriques, in which the wine is aged for a period of typically 19 months. The result is a different style which, although certainly of merit, may not appeal to those who appreciate the more traditional style of Rioja
), ce 2001 est loin d'être à son apogée, un bon 8-10 ans et il serai plus-que-parfait à mon humble avis. Mon expérience était tout de même envoûtante, un véritable nectar. 
