Marqués de Cáceres 2019 Rioja Gran Reserva

Marqués de Cáceres Gran Reserva 2019 is a red wine from the Rioja appellation in Spain. Marqués de Cáceres was founded in 1970 by Enrique Forner with guidance from Émile Peynaud, and the wine is sourced from old, low-yielding bush vines in Rioja Alta and Rioja Alavesa. The 2019 vintage is rated Excellent by the regulatory council. The wine shows a deep garnet-ruby colour with brick and dark mahogany highlights, and its bouquet includes dried black plums, stewed dark cherries, wild cassis, sweet pipe tobacco, cedarwood, cured leather, dark cocoa, cigar box, crushed limestone and toasted French vanilla. On the palate it is full-bodied, with dark stone fruits, blood orange peel and dried Mediterranean herbs, framed by firm, fine-grained, chalky tannins and a long, dry, savoury finish with iron, roasted coffee and dried spice.