Serving Rioja Wine

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Summary: To taste and smell wine properly, it's important to pour the right amount in the wine glass. Learn how to pour and serve Rioja wines from a professional sommelier in this free video about Spanish wines.

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Contact: paulmarcuswines.com

Mark Middlebrook Mark Middlebrook sells and writes about wine for Paul Marcus Wines in Oakland, California. When he's not in the wine shop, he's often picking grapes, tying ... read more

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Serving Rioja Wine

Hi. I'm Mark Middlebook. I'm here in the Paul Marcus Wines warehouse, and in this segment we're going to talk about how to serve and enjoy Rioja. And I have a nice Rioja Crianza here, that we'll open up and, and taste. I like to use a little bit bigger glass, for red Rioja especially. This is a Bordeaux sized glass. But anything will work that's you know, reasonably tall and narrow at the top so we can swirl it around and enjoy those great, great aromas, and spicy aromas of Rioja. So most Riojas come with, still come with cork. So we're going to take off the capsule first, using a knife, or a regular kitchen knife works too. And then put this puppy in there. One of the nice things about Rioja is that it comes to you by law already aged in the bottle. So in general you don't need to spend a lot of time letting it see air. You can open it up ahead of time if you want, it generally won't hurt it. You can decant it, and if it's an older bottle with sediment you probably want to. But with a you know medium aged, younger Rioja like this we don't need to. So we'll just pour it right into the glass. It has that nice kind of slightly lighter red color. We don't want to pour too much because we've got to be able to swirl this thing around and really, really get our nose in there and enjoy the smells. Um, there's a nice spicy, somewhat floral, maybe a little violet. Some, some saddle leather, a little earthiness. That's what I love about Rioja. And then we want to really, really enjoy this by tasting it. It's good.