Frank Gehry Selection
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-roasted milk-fed lamb, grilled prime ribeye steak, and aged Manchego cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted to commemorate the opening of the avant-garde hotel designed by legendary architect Frank Gehry at the Marqués de Riscal estate in Elciego, this ultra-premium Rioja is a masterpiece of modern winemaking rooted in deep tradition. Sourced from extremely low-yielding, hand-harvested Tempranillo and Graciano vines averaging over 80 years of age in the Rioja Alavesa sub-region, the wine undergoes rigorous selection. It is aged in new French oak casks, fusing the classic balsamic, dark-fruit, and mineral complexity of Rioja's clay-limestone soils with a contemporary structure, refined tannins, and extraordinary depth.
🍾 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
Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano, Mazuelo