1986 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Blanco

The Castillo Ygay Blanco Gran Reserva Especial is one of the most beautiful white wines in the world and without a doubt the best white wine ever made in Spain. The wine is mainly made from Viura (97%) with a little Malvasia (3%) from a vineyard planted in 1945 and located in the highest part of the Ygay estate at 485 meters in the La Rioja Alta. The wine has been brought up for 252 months in American oak barriques of 225 liters and 67 months in the concrete tanks. The Ygay Gran Reserva Blanco has a very subtle nose and it is a bit shy even a bit closed at first. This wine from 1986 was only bottled in March 2015, so a bit crazy to say that this wine still looks very young, but that is the case. This amazing wine will improve over the years and has a drinking window of 50+ years. A nice anecdote is that the 1919 vintage of this wine was tasted after 97 years and was then still in perfect condition.

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