{"id":2671,"date":"2016-10-05T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:02:59","slug":"sierra-cantabria-gran-reserva-2005-chosen-by-german-critics-as-a-top-rioja-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/sierra-cantabria-gran-reserva-2005-chosen-by-german-critics-as-a-top-rioja-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sierra Cantabria Gran Reserva 2005&#8221; chosen by German critics as a top Rioja wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Wine professionals and experts awarded 95 points <!--more-->to &#8220;Sierra Cantabria Gran Reserva 2005&#8221; at the Best of Rioja tasting event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/botellas-sierra-cantabria\/Sierra-Cantabria-Gran-Reserva-2005.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra-Cantabria-Gran-Reserva-2005\" \/>Each year the German publisher Meininger organises a tasting featuring several European experts from the wine industry at the facilities of the company, which prints such prestigious publications as Weinwirtschaft, Sommelier, Meiningers Wine Business International and Meiningers Weinwelt.<\/p>\n<p>This time the panel boasted high-level journalists and professionals, including David Schwarzwalder and Peer F. Holm. A total of 15 experts tasted some 341 Rioja D.O. wines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vi\u00f1edos y Bodegas Sierra Cantabria<\/strong> came in at the top of the ranking once again, with a label from its original winery, <strong>Sierra Cantabria Gran Reserva 2005<\/strong>, which garnered 95 points, one of the highest scores awarded by the panel, placing it among the D.O.&#8217;s best wineries according to international critics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sierra Cantabria Gran Reserva 2005<\/strong> reflects <em>&#8220;the balance of maturity and the fruitiness of the Sonsierra Riojana [region], with an elegant aroma. It is tasty on the palate, with red fruit and silky and ripe tannins,&#8221;<\/em> according to its oenologist Marcos Eguren.<\/p>\n<h2>Sierra Cantabria: the essence of the Eguren family<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/bv-sierra-cantabria\/panoramica-Sierra-Cantabria.jpg\" alt=\"panoramica-Sierra-Cantabria\" \/>Founded by Guillermo Eguren in 1957, the Sierra Cantabria winery is located in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, a La Rioja town with a great wine tradition and enjoying a unique location between the River Ebro and the Sierra de Cantabria mountain range.<\/p>\n<p>The mother winery reflects the family&#8217;s evolution from farmers to wine producers thanks to the entrepreneurial vision of Guillermo Eguren, who, without shedding his farming roots, wished to capture the strengths and qualities of the area&#8217;s unique soil in a collection of wines.<\/p>\n<p>The winery takes its name from a unique geographical conformation, at 1,200 meters above sea level, which protects the vineyards from the cold north winds and creates a unique Mediterranean-Continental microclimate, with mild winters and summers yielding the distinctive characteristics of our Rioja D.O.Ca. wines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine professionals and experts awarded 95 points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}