Guía Peñín 2016 praises the Viñedos y Bodegas Sierra Cantabria Wines

· Alabaster 2013 y La Nieta 2012 reach the podium of exceptional wines with 98 points.

· Ten wines made by Marcos Eguren exceed 95 points in the 2016 edition of the Peñín Guide.

· Twenty-one Eguren family wines above 93 points in the Guide will be presented at Salón de los Mejores de Peñín in Madrid on October 29.

Páganos, 22th October 2015. . The Peñín Guide 2016 rewards the wines of Viñedos y Bodegas Sierra Cantabria in the DOCa. Rioja and the DO Toro with excellent ratings.

‘Alabaster 2013’ y ‘La Nieta 2012’ monopolize the podium of the Peñín Guide which consists of three red wines that reach 98 points.

Ten wines presented to the market leading scores Guide, Peñín Guide 2016 bestows the highest honor of 98 points to two wines of Marcos and Miguel Eguren: ‘La Nieta 2012’ from Viñedos de Páganos, and ‘Alabater 2013’, from Teso La Monja, 97 points has recognized the prestige of ‘Victorino 2012’. The podium of the exceptional wines in the Peñín Guide 2016 is completed with ‘Alabaster 2012’, ‘San Vicente 2012’ and ‘Finca El Bosque 2012’ with 96 points each and ‘San Vicente 2011’, ‘Puntido 2011’, ‘Puntido 2012′,’SC Colección Privada 2012’ y ‘Amancio 2012’ with 95 points.

A total of twenty-one wines of the family rated more than 93 points in the Peñín Guide, of which ten equal or exceed 95 points of exceptional wine, which makes it the Spanish wine group with more wines surpassing this rating.

The wines rated above the barrier of 95 points are those that stand out among his kind, add and typical of the area; complex and full of character, elegant and unusual, detailed guide..

Presentation of the vintages in El Salón de los Mejores of Peñín in Madrid

In total there have been twenty-one skilled above 93 points in the 2016 Guide, wines made by Marcos and Miguel Ángel Eguren in the five projects of the Eguren family in the DOCa Rioja and the DO Toro wines. The new vintages of these wines will be present in El Salón de los Mejores de Peñín, October 29, 2015 at Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid (Campo de las Naciones).

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• Salón Guía Peñín de los Mejores Vinos de España (new window)
• Guía Peñín (new window)
• Press release – Viñedos y Bodegas Sierra Cantabria(PDF -300Kb)

The project Viñedos y Bodegas Sierra Cantabria family vineyard

Five generations of winemakers with roots in San Vicente de la Sonsierra have woven a long history of complicity between man and the vineyard to extract the virtues of a single variety, Tempranillo, using every effort to convey their exceptional wines expressive of the utmost purity and identification with the terroir.