Tapias
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted lamb chops with rosemary, grilled prime ribeye steak, or aged Manchego cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Marqu es de Riscal, established in 1858, is a legendary pioneer of Rioja, famously introducing Bordeaux winemaking techniques to the region. Tapias (sourced from the historic Las Tapias vineyard) represents a modern pinnacle of this heritage—a single-vineyard red from Elciego in Rioja Alavesa. Planted on gravelly, calcareous clay terraces, the vineyard contains old-vine Tempranillo propagated via massal selection, occasionally complemented by a touch of Graciano. This wine pays homage to the estate's 19th-century roots, combining traditional elegance with contemporary precision. It undergoes fermentation in oak vats followed by aging in fine French oak barrels, yielding a deep, structured, and intensely aromatic wine that captures the essence of Elciego's unique terroir.
🍾 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