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Lot 150
1986 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Blanco Gran Reserva Especial Rioja DOCa - 3 bottle(s)-750ml
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This lot is comprised of 3 bottle(s) of 1986 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Blanco Gran Reserva Especial Rioja DOCa - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $2100 - $3000 with a BUY IT NOW of $2550. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11669.
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A Toronto-based collector who has been purchasing high-end wine for over a decade. Most of the wines have been purchased upon release, agency/winery direct and have been professionally stored at Fine Wine Reserve. This collector has one of the largest collections in storage at that facility and has recently realized they had more than they could possibly enjoy.
1986 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Blanco Gran Reserva Especial Rioja DOCa from this lot has the following scores - The Wine Advocate 100 points, James Suckling 100 points. This is the tasting note for 1986 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Blanco Gran Reserva Especial Rioja DOCa from Robert Parker - with a score of 100. I have been terribly excited about this wine since I first learned that (part of) it was still in cement waiting to be bottled in September 2013. I consider the rare white Castillo Ygay one of the greatest white wines ever produced in Spain, and the 1986 Castillo Ygay Blanco Gran Reserva Especial is a great addition to the portfolio of the winery--an historic wine that is coming back to life. I did a vertical tasting of many of the old, historic vintages of this wine, and they are included in a separate article in this very same issue. This 1986 had seen the light as a limited early release bottled in 1992 and sold around 1995, and some bottles might still be found in the market. But most of it remained unbottled and was kept at the winery, where it stayed in oak for 21 years, followed by some six years in cement vats until it was bottled. It has 13.5% alcohol, an extremely low pH of 2.98 and 6.75 grams of acidity (tartaric). It has a very subtle nose and it's a bit shy, a little closed at first. It was only bottled one and a half years ago, and it's not crazy to say that the wine is showing extremely young. The wine shows more open the day after, when it has developed some nuances of mushrooms and verbena tea. This is mostly Viura with perhaps a pinch of Malvasía Riojana (aka Alarije). The palate is both powerful and elegant, with superb acidity and great length, with volume and sharpness, with a mineral, umami-driven finish. It fills your mouth, tickles your taste buds and makes you salivate. There is nothing negative about the wine