{"id":3100,"date":"2018-02-23T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T08:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:03:03","slug":"our-wines-take-the-podium-in-the-2018-penin-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/our-wines-take-the-podium-in-the-2018-penin-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Wines Take the Podium in the 2018 Pe\u00f1\u00edn Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/img-destacada\/Sierra-Cantabria-Puntuaciones-Penin-febrero-2018.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra-Cantabria-Puntuaciones-Penin-febrero-2018\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eighteen wines received more than 90 points<!--more-->, and six of them were \u201cPodium Wines\u201d, with scores of over 95 points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/logotipos\/logo-guia-penin.png\" alt=\"logo-guia-penin\">This new edition of the Pe\u00f1\u00edn Guide features more wines than ever before, with 11,500 sampled. This year marks a new development: they have segmented the wineries according to their maximum scores, featuring Podium Wines (95-100 points), Unique Wines (94-93 points).<\/p>\n<p>Within the<strong> Podium Wines <\/strong>(95-100 points) category was <strong>Alabaster 2014<\/strong>, with 97. Very close to this exceptional wine, with 96 points, were <strong>Finca El Bosque 2014, Almirez 2015 <\/strong>and<strong> Victorino 2014<\/strong>, while <strong>La Nieta 2014<\/strong> and <strong>Amancio 2013 <\/strong>also stood on the podium, with 95 points<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the category of Unique Wines (94-93 points) are <strong>El Puntido 2014<\/strong> by <strong>Vi\u00f1edos de P\u00e1ganos<\/strong> and <strong>San Vicente 2013,<\/strong> which were awarded 94 points, along with <strong>Sierra Cantabria Gran Reserva 2008, Sierra Cantabria Colecci\u00f3n Privada 2015<\/strong> and <strong>Sierra Cantabria Cuv\u00e9e 2013<\/strong>. Several wines, meanwhile, were awarded 93 points<strong>: Sierra Cantabria Reserva 2010, Sierra Cantabria Garnacha 2014 <\/strong>and <strong>Organza 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, in the category of <strong>Excellent Wines <\/strong>(92-90 points) is <strong>Rom\u00e1nico 2015,<\/strong> from the Toro D.O., with 92 points. With 90 points, it is followed by<strong> Murmur\u00f3n 2016<\/strong>, <strong>Sierra Cantabria Rosado 2016, <\/strong>and<strong> Sierra Cantabria Crianza 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/lugares\/san-vicente-panoramica.jpg\" alt=\"san-vicente-panoramica\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>The purity of the <em>terroir<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The family&#8217;s wine-growing project in La Rioja and Toro aims to produce wines that evoke the character of the winery, defined by its versatility and pronounced identity. Marcos and Miguel Eguren, along with their father Guillermo and the new generation, represented by Eduardo Eguren, have striven for excellence in the care they have shown the vineyard and their great respect for the fruit in its cellars, to turn out wines qualifying as new classics; wines that endure over time, fusing fruit, potency and structure with elegance, freshness and subtlety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen wines received more than 90 points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-promo-eng","category-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","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=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}