The Winery Viña Muriel of Rioja

Winery Viña Muriel
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
This estate is part of the Muriel Wines.
It is ranked in the top 219 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery Viña Muriel is one of the best wineries to follow in Rioja.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Viña Muriel wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Viña Muriel

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Viña Muriel

How Winery Viña Muriel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of beef tongue in hot sauce, marinated shoulder of lamb or filet mignon of veal with cider.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Viña Muriel

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Viña Muriel

  • 2004With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.16/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.02/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5

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 Viña Muriel

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Viña Muriel

How Winery Viña Muriel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of spaghetti with squid ink (italy), macaroons foie gras / figs or monkfish in foil.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Viña Muriel

On the nose the white wine of Winery Viña Muriel. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, spices or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Viña Muriel. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Viña Muriel

  • 2011With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.80/5

Discover the grape variety: Big Muscat seedless

Variety of Argentinean origin.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Viña Muriel

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 Viña Muriel.

Discover the grape variety: Hegel

German, intraspecific cross obtained in 1955 between helfensteiner and heroldreber by August Karl Herold (1902-1973) at the Weinsberg Research Institute. With these same parents he also obtained the dornfelder. One can meet the Hegel in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, ... completely unknown in France.

News about Winery Viña Muriel 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 ...

Top DWWA award-winning wines on show at Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

At the 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards, the world’s largest wine competition saw its biggest year to date, with 18,094 wines tasted from 56 countries. Over 15 consecutive days in June 2021, almost 170 expert wine judges, including 44 Masters of Wine and 11 Master Sommeliers, awarded 50 Best in Show, 179 Platinum, 635 Gold, 5,607 Silver and 8,332 Bronze medals. Join Decanter at our Fine Wine Encounter NYC this June, where you will have the opportunity to sample 23 of these top awarded Gold, Plati ...

DO Penedès announces the first “Vi de Mas” wines

In November of 2021, Spain’s DO Penedès announced a massive overhaul of their bylaws with many changes aimed at re-orienting the region via a “10-year plan”. One of the key aspects was a new classification system for the estates of the region called, “Vi de Mas”, the first five of which have just been certified. While most wine regions looking to implement a system use the so-called “Burgundian Pyramid” as a structure, Penedès took a different approach that merged some of the Burgundian sy ...

The word of the wine: Varietal wine

Name given to the local wine (IGP), produced from a single grape variety that gives the wine its characteristics of structure and aroma. The Languedoc is the leading producer of this type of wine, from most of the major French grape varieties.

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