#exclusiveselection_december2022 Castillo Ygay Reserva Especial 1925 Gran Reserva Marqués de Murrieta S.A. - (Logroño, La Rioja) D.O.: RIOJA Rioja Vintage Rating 1925: VERY GOOD 49% Tempranillo, 19% Garnacha, 17% Mazuelo, 15% Graciano. "This was aged for 8 months in 18.500-litre tank. Transferred to fairly new American oak barrels, where it stayed for five years. The wine was then moved into older barrels, neutralised by tartaric acid deposits on the inside, and aged for an astonishing 32 years more, before being bottled in 1964. Even at this stage the wine was not considered ready, and was given considerable bottle age before finally coming onto the market in 1973" 99/100 Jeff Leve (The Wine Cellar Insider): "This nose was off charts! Served double blind, I was willing to bet it was a 1947 Right Bank Bordeaux, due to its insane, jammy, liqueur, VA, earth, floral, liquorice, truffle, brown sugar, ripe, riper and overripe berry, plum, fig and raisin profile. It was definitely one of the most unique wines I’ve ever nosed and tasted. On the palate, the wine was erotic, sexy and decadent in all the right ways, finishing with sensuous, pure, cherry liqueur flavours". 100/100 Cellartracker: "A wine of unfathomable majesty and depth. With its vigorous, almost youthful acidity and yet mature complexity and sheer deliciousness, it outshone the previous Grand Crus of Bordeaux, Cheval Blanc, Mouton, Petrus (hopefully) and has become the wine I can mention as "The Best" I've had. Mystic and Divine".