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Dalmau 2020

Dalmau

2020
96
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Spec sheet

TypeRed wine
Region
Grapes
Producer
AllergensContains sulfites
Alcohol contenti14.5%
Production24,168 bottles

The wine

Dalmau is a wine with character, powerful and delicate at the same time, the wine which reflects the most modern facet of Marqués de Murrieta. You can see this to be so in its blend, a rigorous selection of the Tempranillo, Graciano... and Cabernet Sauvignon varieties, and in its ageing: new barrels... of French oak.

It's a single estate wine, from the century-old Pago Canajas, located on the Ygay estate, and of limited production. This is an elegant wine and quite unusual, that creates a strong impression on all the senses, due to the attractiveness of its blend, its complexity, intensity and body, and its magnificent balance. An elegant, classy wine that is captivating on the nose and seductive on the palate.

What does this wine taste like?

Bouquet
Complex / Fruits of the forest / Chocolate / Mint notes / Mineral notes
Mouth
Elegant / Invigorating / With body / Powerful

Drinking and storing

Serve between 16ºC and 18ºC

Food pairing

Venison / Oxtail / Dark chocolate

Ratings and awards

202096 PK
201995 PK
201793-94 PK97 SK
201694-95 PK94 SK
201594 PK
201493 PK
PK: ParkerSK: Suckling

Wine critics reviewsReviews by Parker

The 2019 Dalmau Reserva was produced with a blend of 86% Tempranillo, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Graciano from Pago Canajas within the property, nine hectares planted in 1945 on red stony soils where they seek low yields to achieve concentration. It's a powerful red with 14.5% alcohol where all the varieties fermented destemmed separately in 13,900-liter oak vats with pumping over and délestage. It matured in French oak barrels for 20 months. There is a big change in this wine that increases its freshness and elegance, and they skipped the 2018 because they were not fully convinced and jumped to this 2019, the first one from the new era, produced in the new winery and fermented in oak vats. The big change is driven by the search for freshness and elegance and the effect of the new fermentation chamber and the fermentation oak vats. This could very well be the finest Dalmau ever produced, with the style of the new era of Marqués de Murrieta. It's a wine with a new and stronger personality that goes beyond the varieties used, so that they feel very integrated and complementing each other. Refined, super elegant and fine tannins frame the palate of this exceptional wine. 15,526 bottles produced. It was bottled in December 2021. They skipped the 2018 vintage of this, and the 2019 will be released in January 2023.

— Luis Gutiérrez (14/07/2022)Robert Parker Wine Advocate Vintage 2019 - 95 PARKER

Customer reviews

4.8/5
5 reviews
Vintage:

Winemaking

Ageing period19 months
Barrel ageNew
Type of woodFrench oak

Vineyards

Pago Canajas

Vine age100 years
SoilCalcareous-clay / Gravel surface
ClimateContinental
YieldsLow yields

The winery

Marqués de Murrieta

Marqués de Murrieta

Marqués de Murrieta is one of the most historic Spanish wineries. Its origins date back to 1852 when Luciano de Murrieta started trading his wines in the New World. Today, 170 years later, the impressive Ygay estate seems untouched by the passage of time, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Nowadays, Vicente D. Cebrián-Sagarriga, the present Count of Creixell, manages the winery with his sister Cristina and a skilled young team which understands how to...

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