The Winery Melquior of Rioja

Winery Melquior - Vendimia Seleccionada
The winery offers 7 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 1038 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery Melquior is one of the best wineries to follow in Rioja.. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Melquior wines

Looking for the best Winery Melquior wines in Rioja among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Melquior 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 Melquior wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Melquior

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Melquior

How Winery Melquior wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of barbecued prime rib with coarse salt, lamb mice confit and melting carrots or marinated veal skewers with herbs.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Melquior

On the nose the red wine of Winery Melquior. often reveals types of flavors of blackberry, oak or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Melquior. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Melquior

  • 2004With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 1995With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2001With an average score of 3.68/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.53/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Melquior.

  • Tempranillo

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).

The top white wines of Winery Melquior

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Melquior

How Winery Melquior wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of paella josé style, aperitif puff pastries (cheese matches, puff pastries with... or adapted vietnamese fondue.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Melquior

On the nose the white wine of Winery Melquior. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Melquior. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Melquior

  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Melquior.

  • Viura
  • Verdejo

Discover the grape variety: Tempranillo

The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to 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-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

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Discover the grape variety: Verdejo

An ancient grape variety that has been cultivated for a long time, mainly in the Rueda region of northwestern Spain. D.N.A. tests show that it is the result of a natural cross between Savagnin and Castellana Blanco. It should not be confused with the Verdelho, which is very well known in Portugal, and the Verdelho Branco, which is almost more widespread. The Verdejo is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A. It can also be found in the United States (Virginia, California, etc.), Australia, Portugal, etc., but is practically unknown in France.

News about Winery Melquior and wines from the region

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 ...

La Rioja Alta expands with ‘artisanal vineyard’ deals

Guillermo de Aranzabal Bittner, a director at La Rioja Alta, said the company had acquired 35ha of old vines, with a minimum age of 45 years, in the village of Elvillar at an average altitude of 600 metres. He also said La Rioja Alta would buy more old vines this year, bringing total ‘artisanal vineyard’ acquisitions to a minimum of 5oha, and potentially up to 75ha, by the end of 2022. ‘We are buying very old vineyards, pruned in the traditional way with very low production, some of which are fi ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

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