In the glass
Aroma: lemon, white peach, almond, beeswax, fennel
Palate: citrus pith, toasted nut, mineral, saline
A single-vineyard barrel-aged Viura that bridges modern and traditional white Rioja: citrus and nut over a mineral, ageworthy frame.
What it pairs with
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Bacalao al pil pil
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Salt cod and Capellania's waxy, mineral citrus are a Spanish-coast classic. -
Roast hake
Oven hake handles the wine's oak-framed nutty depth. -
Txangurro al horno
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Baked spider crab's sweetness lifts the wine's preserved-lemon savour.
History
Capellania comes from a single Viura parcel on the Ygay estate and is barrel-aged, made to age for a decade or more.
- 1985 — Capellania established as the estate's age-worthy single-vineyard white
Facts
- Producer
- Marques de Murrieta
- Grapes
- Viura (100%)
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Oak
- Around 18 to 24 months in French and American oak
- ABV
- 13.5%
- Price
- EUR 25 to 40 at retail
- Drinking window
- 5 to 20 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1985
Scores
- Tim Atkin 94 (2018 vintage, reviewed 2023)