Museum Reserva

Museum Reserva is the new name of the wine El Perdiguero Barrica

Quality Tempranillo from the unknown Cigales, but definitely “Muy Bien” !!

The Museum Reserva comes from vineyards with very old vines averaging 50 years old. These are old bush vines with a low yield. As a result, the grapes are extra concentrated. After the harvest, the grapes are macerated for maximum extraction, then crushed and fermented in stainless steel tanks. The fermenting mass is regularly pumped around to release even more flavor and color. Finally, a thorough aging of 18 months follows in new European and American oak. You could therefore speak of a substantial touch of wood in the wine experience. Afterwards, the wine spends another 18 months in the cellars to mature beautifully. This creates great aromatic richness and makes the wine rounder in taste. This is how it arrives on the market, fully ready for you to drink. The Museum Reserva is intensely ruby ​​red in color. Full of flavor and aromatic, with ripe dark forest fruit, delicious in combination with aromas such as chocolate, vanilla, coconut, and mocha. The taste is firm yet smooth. Full and creamy in taste, with plenty of fruit and soft tannins again.

This calls for a nice piece of dry-aged red meat or a few lamb chops, gently grilled on the barbecue for example. Add some herb butter and dig in! Also delicious with hard cheeses such as Manchego. Completely ready to drink now, but also keeps for several years in your cellar or climate-controlled cabinet.

The rise of Finca Museum

In the late 1990s, Grupo Barón de Ley decided to go beyond the Rioja DOCa (Qualified Appellation of Origin). After extensively exploring various regions, we fell in love with the Cigales Designation of Origin, an area with a long tradition of viticulture and an enormous heritage of centuries-old vineyards that had been abandoned due to a lack of viticultural projects in the area.

The fact that agricultural engineer Tomás Jurío took the helm of the project speaks volumes about the importance of the vineyards in the Finca Museum. He worked for years searching for small treasures and marking vineyards that the winery gradually purchased from local winegrowers, eventually establishing an estate of over 200 hectares. And so, the Finca Museum came into existence in the year 2000.

Cigales

The D.O. area of ​​Cigales, still unknown to many, stretches across the north of Valladolid. The area was granted D.O. status in 1991. Cigales is a small, sleepy town dominated by a beautiful church on a small, leafy square and surrounded by dry fields from which rather strange chimneys protrude here and there. These chimneys are special air ducts for the cellars, 10 meters underground, where the temperature is constant and resin-concrete vats stand, where the wine rests until the cellar master decides that the time for bottling has arrived. And time plays no role here. Take your time to enjoy this as well.