Blanco
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh seafood platters, grilled white fish with lemon, and soft goat cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the historic Marqués de Riscal, a producer that famously revolutionized white winemaking in the Castilla y León region during the early 1970s. Working alongside legendary French enologist Émile Peynaud, Riscal championed the indigenous Verdejo grape, rescuing it from obscurity and introducing modern, temperature-controlled stainless steel fermentation to the high-altitude, gravelly terroirs of the region. This 'Blanco' embodies that legacy of freshness and innovation. Crafted predominantly from Verdejo, it showcases a bright, aromatic profile characterized by fresh-cut grass, citrus, and tropical fruit notes, underpinned by a vibrant mineral backbone typical of the region's stony, clay-limestone soils.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1858 by Camilo Hurtado de Amézaga, Marqués de Riscal is one of the oldest and most pioneering wineries in Spain's Rioja region, situated in the historic town of Elciego. The estate revolutionized Spanish viticulture by introducing Bordeaux-style vinification and barrel aging techniques, earning worldwide acclaim as the first non-French wine to win the Diploma of Honor at the Exhibition of Bordeaux in 1895. In addition to its legendary, structured Rioja Reserva and Gran Reserva Tempranillo expressions, the bodega expanded into Castilla y León in the 1970s, playing an instrumental role in establishing the Rueda appellation with benchmark Verdejo and Sauvignon Blanc wines. Today, Marqués de Riscal seamlessly fuses classical winemaking mastery with avant-garde innovation, epitomized by its iconic Frank Gehry-designed winery complex.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Verdejo (min 85%), Sauvignon Blanc