TASTINGS ARE $15 AND $5 OFF FOR ALL WINE CLUB MEMBERS.
Winemaker Christina Forner will be your host for the evening!
Spanish wines!
Cristina Forner
Winemaker / Owner a fifth-generation winemaker and CEO of the celebrated Marqués de Cáceres of Rioja Alta, Spain.
About the winery
In 1970, Enrique Forner founded Marqués de Cáceres, Unión Vitivinícola, S.A., a historic Alliance between a region (Cenicero, La Rioja Alta), an enterprising family that has been devoted to the wine trade for five generations, the best vine growers and vineyards in La Rioja and a Bordeaux concept which revolutionised the production and business model with a single objective: the quality to obtain the best wines, an obsession that today continues to be the leitmotiv of Cristina Forner, the third generation of this wine family.
Enrique Forner, Cristina’s father, worked in the wine trade as a boy. In 1920, his grandfather and his father founded ‘Vinícola Forner’, a family business devoted to the production, sale and exportation of wines in Sagunto (Valencia).
Exiled in France due to the Civil War, Enrique founded a similar business in 1952, in the Rhône and Loire valleys (France), and in 1963 he bought two chateaux grands crus classés in the Haut Medoc region (Bordeaux), Château Camensac and Château Larose Trintaudon, convinced that he would be able to make some of the world’s finest wines.
He returned to Spain in 1968 and, given that a century before wine-producers and merchants from Bordeaux had chosen La Rioja when fleeing the phylloxera plague, he opted for La Rioja and Cenicero, in the heart of the La Rioja Alta sub-region, to continue his great dream.
Enrique Forner turned to his friend, Professor Emile Peynaud, a true revolutionary of winegrowing and winemaking in Bordeaux in the 1970s and 1980s, in order to steep La Rioja in the same reformist spirit.
The worldwide renown of Marqués de Cáceres is based on the quality of its Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva wines. In the 1970s, the winery paved the way to the renovation of Rioja wines, and with the outstanding 1994 vintage, we introduced Gaudium, a great wine in tune with the times whose structure, fruity notes and power, along with its elegance, offer the lasting still gentle expression of the top-scoring Spanish wine according to specialist magazines. MC, launched with the legendary 2001 vintage, is another special wine from Marqués de Cáceres, the product of the terroir of the best and oldest vineyard in Cenicero. Marqués de Cáceres BIO is the organic label from the winery, an absolutely lively wine that reveals the great joy of its youth.
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