Barón de Chirel
Pure art
Pure art
2019 VINTAGE
2019 VINTAGE
World’s Best Sommeliers’ Selection 2024
James Suckling
93 points
Guía Proensa 2024
99 points
2018 vintage
2018 vintage
Guía Vivir el Vino 2024
98 points
Guía Vinos Gourmets 2024
98 points
Guía de Vinos de ABC
97 points
Mundus Vini 2023
GOLD & Best of Show Rioja Reserva
Wine Enthusiast 2023
97 points & Top 100 Cellar Selections 2023
Guía Peñín 2024
95 points
James Suckling 2023
94 points
Variety used
Tempranillo / other
Harmony
This wine goes well with ham and mature cheese,
red meat, poultry, game casseroles such as
partridge, rabbit, venison, boar or roebuck, even
when cooked in spicy sauces.
Best served at
Between 16º and 18ºC
Contains sulphites
Barón de Chirel is a modern classic which showcases the identity, tradition and modernity of Rioja.
The first vintage of Barón de Chirel, in 1986, was a response to the growing interest in fine quality Riojas. Since the outset, Marqués de Riscal has had very close ties with the winemaking methods of Bordeaux. At around that time Marqués de Riscal was working with a consultant named Professor Guy Guimberteau, successor to Émile Peynaud, who in his Bordeaux oenological training also had Francisco Hurtado de Amézaga as a student. Later, in 1997, Paul Pontallier, director general of one of the five Bordeaux premiers crus, Château Margaux, also joined. From this relationship sprang the idea of making an experimental wine which would revive the grandeur of those mythical Médoc Reservas brought right up to date with the technology and resources of the 20th century.
Vines aged between 80 and 110 years’ old were selected, with very low yields and better quality grapes. The wine was only made in the best vintages when the vines express the full character of the terroir; the “New Era of Rioja” had just begun. Pioneer and precursor of what would later be known as “high expression wines”. After the success when it first broke into a market hungry for fine quality wines, an endless procession of wines began to appear in the wake of Barón de Chirel, enjoying great prestige among the most discerning consumers.
