[Cornell Wine] Sensational Rioja Wine!

[Beard Michael]

CORNELL WINE COMPANY
30th ANNIVERSARY GIFT!
30th BIRTHDAY GIFT!
FATHER’S DAY GIFT!

SENSATIONAL RIOJA!
MARQUÉS de MURRIETA 1978 CASTILLO YGAY
GRAN RESERVA ESPECIAL
$225.00

Ygay is only bottled in exceptional years – and 1978 was  
exceptional!  I bought one bottle for myself and have one for sale.   
This is from a release this year from the winery, and from the super- 
clean label it looks as though it was labeled this year.  The fill  
level is “as new”.  The following is the review in the April 2008  
issue of Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate:

“There are just 1250 cases of the exceptional 1978 Gran Reserva  
Especial Castillo Ygay.  Only in the greatest vintages (1917, 1925,  
1934, 1942, 1952, 1959, 1964, 1968, 1970, and this 1978) is a portion  
of the wine held back for extended cask aging.  The wine is a blend  
of 75% Tempranillo, 10% Garnacha, 12% Mazuelo, and 3% Graciano aged  
for 216 months in American oak barriques.  The wine was bottled in  
1998.  Medium ruby-colored, it has a super-expressive bouquet of  
cedar, leather, Asian spices, mineral, and assorted red and black  
fruits with the kind of complexity that only extended aging can  
provide.  Remarkably youthful on the palate, the wine shows little  
sign of age.  Ripe, elegant, concentrated, and full-flavored, this  
beautifully balanced wine can be enjoyed now and should continue to  
drink well for at least another 12-15 years.  Indeed, having recently  
shared a bottled of the 1952 Castillo Ygay, it seems likely that this  
1978 will also have a 50 year lifespan – 94 points.”

If you have any interest, please telephone me at (503) 531-3981.  I  
may be able to get more, but very little came into Oregon.

Cheers,
Mick
Cornell Wine Company
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