2017 Marqués de Tosos, Gran Reserva, Cariñena
“…A complex array of aromatic flavours that explode on the palate. Warm, luscious cherry and plum fruit with woodsmoke, exotic spice, and fine, polished oak.”(Ben Godfrey, Head Buyer)
Sound good? It is. Very. And precisely why the 2017 vintage of Marqués de Tosos’s Cariñena Gran Reserva is such a worthy successor to the long-sold-out 2015.
A silky, sensuous, eight-years-matured, Gran Reserva blend of tempranillo, garnacha, and cabernet, and in the Rioja style. Again, from this wonderful little corner of regional Spain. Where pound-for-pound, the Cariñena region offers craftsmanship, authenticity, and sheer value for money that is, bar none, the best in Spain we’ve discovered yet.