Marques del Atrio Tempranillo – Graciano Rioja (2022)

Marques del Atrio Tempranillo – Graciano Rioja (2022)

Marques del Atrio is a juicy and full-bodied Tempranillo – Graciano wine from Rioja with ripe berries and delicious balanced spices. Delicious with pasta dishes and light meat where it will complete the meal, you taste that here you get wine for the money.

Scent: Intense notes of ripe plums, strawberries and raspberries.
Taste: Fresh and persistent in the mouth from the aroma nuances and is nicely followed by an intense aftertaste that completes this elegant and complex wine.
Server for: Pasta dishes, light meats and a selection of soft, mild cheeses.
Served at: 16-18°C.

Marques del Atrio Tempranillo is made mainly from tempranillo grapes with a little graciano added, harvested from perfectly situated fields at an altitude of 3-600 meters. After the harvest, the grapes are brought directly to the winery, where they are immediately de-stemmed and lightly pressed. The grapes are then soaked for 10-15 days. During the maceration process, the grape must is pumped daily over the grapes to extract as much juice and power from the grapes as possible. Finally, the grape must undergoes a temperature-controlled fermentation at 2-28 °C. After fermentation, the wine is bottled to preserve the fresh fruit in the final wine.

The wine house:

Marqués del Atrio is a proud family-owned company founded in the late 18th century in Rioja. The first bottled wine was launched here in 1965, and since then things have been going strong. Today, the company has over 30,000 square meters of land and has space in its facilities for more than 10,000 wine barrels and a tank capacity of 6 million liters of wine. All vinification, aging and bottling takes place on these lands. Marqués del Atrio buys a large part of the grapes for their wine from local farmers and therefore has a long and proud collaboration with the local community and is guaranteed grapes of the highest quality year after year.

The wines from Marqués del Atrio all originate from Spain's oldest wine region, Rioja. A wine region that can be dated back to 1925. Rioja is located in northern Spain approx. 300 km north of Madrid, where it is sheltered from the westerly wind from the Cantabrian mountains. The soil in the area is characterized by sand, limestone, clay and large round stones, which provide good drainage for the vines. The river Ebro and its tributaries make the area very fertile. This, together with the good climatic conditions, makes the area ideal for wine production.