Marqués de Riscal Limousin

The White Wine Marqués de Riscal Limousin from Bodegas Marqués de Riscal presents us with this white wine from D.O. Rueda, crafted from 100% Verdejo grape varieties. With beauty, refinement and typicity, this wine represents the most outstanding qualities of the Verdejo grape, renowned for its fragrance, fresh acidity and aging potential.

The grapes come from vines over 40 years old, bush-trained, from the highest terraces in the La Seca area and ungrafted vines from the Segovia area. 50% of the vines are organically farmed. This highly adaptable grape with good acidity allows for optimal fermentation and aging on lees in French oak barrels. Production: Manual harvest is carried out in 15 kg capacity boxes for subsequent pressing of whole grapes, without crushing, after passing through a double selection table for both clusters and individual grape berries. This way oxidation of the must is minimized and all the aromas, color and freshness characteristic of this variety are preserved. After light clarification of the must, fermentation takes place in 600-liter French oak barrels, followed by aging on lees for approximately 6 months. Weekly lees stirring during the first 3 months and then according to the evolution of the aging.

Optimal serving temperature: Between 9 and 12ºC.

Bodegas Marqués de Riscal: The history of Bodegas Marqués de Riscal is the history of an innovative, pioneering company and benchmark of a wine sector in continuous transformation. The winery was founded in 1858 by Guillermo Hurtado de Amézaga. In 1862 its first wines were bottled, thus becoming the oldest bottled wines of Rioja. A few years after its founding, the winery began to quickly win numerous awards, but one of the most important came in 1895, when Marqués de Riscal became the first non-French wine to achieve the Diploma of Honor at the Bordeaux Exhibition. In 1972 Marqués de Riscal began production of the first white wines from Rueda and, in recent years, the winery has ventured into incorporating two new denominations into the project, V.T. Castilla y León and D.O. Getariako Txakolina. For those who want to journey through the winery’s history from its founding to the present day with the possibility of enjoying Marqués de Riscal wines, in 2006 La Ciudad del Vino was inaugurated, which today features a hotel designed by famous Canadian architect Frank O. Gehry.