The Winery Marques de Vargas of Rioja

Winery Marques de Vargas - Gran Reserva Rioja
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
This estate is part of the Marqués de Vargas.
It is ranked in the top 79 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery Marques de Vargas is one of the world's great estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Marques de Vargas wines

Looking for the best Winery Marques de Vargas wines in Rioja among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Marques de Vargas wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Marques de Vargas wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Marques de Vargas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Marques de Vargas

How Winery Marques de Vargas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of boeuf en daube, lamb with masalé sauce and rice or braised veal heart with carrots.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Marques de Vargas

On the nose the red wine of Winery Marques de Vargas. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, balsamic or dark fruit and sometimes also flavors of cedar, black plum or cream. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Marques de Vargas. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Marques de Vargas

  • 1999With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.29/5
  • 1995With an average score of 4.27/5
  • 2000With an average score of 4.24/5
  • 2001With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 1996With an average score of 4.23/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Marques de Vargas.

  • Tempranillo
  • Mazuelo
  • Garnacha
  • Garnacha Tinta
  • Grenache
  • Carignan

Discovering the wine region of Rioja

Rioja, in northern Spain, is best known for its berry-flavored, barrel-aged red wines made from Tempranillo and Garnacha. It is probably the leading wine region in Spain. It is certainly the most famous, rivaling only Jerez. The Vineyards follow the course of the Ebro for a hundred kilometres between the towns of Haro and Alfaro.

Besides Tempranillo and Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo (Carignan) are also used in Rioja's red wines. Some wineries, notably Marqués de Riscal, use small amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon. White grapes are planted much less. In 2017, the vineyard area was recorded at 64,215 hectares (158,679 acres).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Marques de Vargas

Planning a wine route in the of Rioja? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Marques de Vargas.

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Marques de Vargas and wines from the region

Decanter Editor-in-Chief’s New York Fine Wine Encounter top tips

There are going to be some utterly splendid wines to taste at our New York Fine Wine Encounter – many of the world’s grandest winemakers have brought some of their very best bottles to our event, knowing their hard work and talent will be appreciated by a discerning audience.  My team of experts have picked out a great selection of their personal favourites from the wines on offer, and for their superbly detailed analysis and opinion, you should read the pieces and the picks from Georgie Hindle, ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Telling stories about terroir will lead us astray’

A domaine’s long history hoists its inanimate wines into life; biography brings meaning to the simple sensual pleasure of tasting a grower’s efforts. It’s important, though, to know what we are doing when we tell stories. And to know what to tell them about. Winemakers take the messy chaos of natural processes and add discipline, giving shape and direction to produce a stable and enticing wine. This was never nature’s intent. The storyteller takes a messy chaos of random events, either imagined ...

Vanilla is the ‘most pleasant’ smell, finds study

Vanilla was ranked as the most pleasant smell in a study involving 235 people and conducted by an international network of researchers, including those from the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. This was closely followed by ethyl butyrate, ‘which smells like peaches’, said the researchers, who published their findings in the Current Biology journal. Vanilla notes can be found in several wine styles, such as some iterations of Chardonnay or Rioja, largely resulting from ...

The word of the wine: Cryo-extraction

This technique was very popular at the end of the 80's in Sauternes, a little less so now. The grapes are frozen before pressing, and the water transformed into ice remains in the marc, only the sugar flows out. As with the concentrators, the "cryo" can also increase bad taste and greenness.

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