Goes well with Spanish specialities, hearty meat dishes, grills, game and lamb.

Descalificado Due to an act of rebellion to defend authenticity In normal years, the base wine of Requiem is called Re Minor. With the 2016 vintage, however, the wine was excluded from DOCa by the Ribera del Duero regulatory authority because it did not meet the requirements. In order to market this wine in the Ribera del Duero appellation, artificial acid would have had to be added to the Re Minor in 2016 to make it compliant with the rules. According to Requiem, this is complete nonsense, as it leads to standardized wines that do not really match the typical vintage. That is why the winery has decided to downgrade the wine and simply market it as red wine. By the way, the regulatory authority has now changed the parameters so that the wine no longer has to be disqualified today. The grapes for the Descalificado come from an average 70-year-old bush vine in the Ribera del Duero. After handpicking, the grapes are spontaneously fermented with natural yeasts without adding sulfur. The wine is aged for 16 months in new and used French barriques.

Allergy information: Contains sulfites