Diez-Caballero Winery Victoria Diez-Caballero Rioja Reserva 2007



By Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
2007 Diez-Caballero Victoria Diez Caballero
A Proprietary Blend Dry Red Table wine from Rioja, Spain
Review by Jay Miller
eRobertParker.com # 188 (Jun 2010)
Rating: 90
Drink 2012 - 2022
Cost: $54
The purple-colored 2007 Victoria Diez-Caballero was sourced from 60 year old Tempranillo vines and aged for 12 months in French oak. Made in a more international style, it offers an attractive bouquet of mineral, cigar box, violets, and black cherry leading to a smooth-textured, succulent wine with plenty of spicy black fruit flavors, impeccable balance, and several years of aging potential. It will offer a drinking window extending from 2012 to 2022. Importer: The Enye Group, Chicago, IL; www.enyegroup.com


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Our Wines
Our 1979 vintage was the first wine bottled under the DIEZ-CABALLERO name. Excellent harvests in 1981 and 1982 opened the door to Crianza wines for marketing through select, private channels.
In what was a great honor for us our first Reserva – the 1987 – was selected for the opening ceremony of the Acería Compacta de Bizkaia steel mill, which was attended by King Juan Carlos.
The mysterious workings of time give our wine an exquisite complexity, enabling us to continue producing great wines.
Our Reservas were followed by our 2000,2001, 2004 and 2005 “Vendimia Seleccionada” [“Vintage Selection”].
In 2010 we began to market our Victoria 2007. The run of five thousand bottles was quickly sold out as it was snapped up by our customers and friends. Victoria 2008, which came onto the market in 2011, has the potential in terms of aroma and taste to become the best wine in our brief but distinguished history.


History Of The Winery
The origins of the DIEZ-CABALLERO winery are shrouded in mystery and lost in the mists of time.
Its ancient cellars once belonged to the Church but were privatized with the confiscation of church properties by Mendizábal in the 1830s. My grandfather Miguel Cenea bought them in the 20th century.
Together with other wineries owned by my father Victor Cañas (La Cueva Alta, El Olivar, El Olmo, El Molino and El Cubierto) it formed part of a great wine company whose output was shipped to the Alhóndiga wine clearing house in Bilbao.
We are talking about more than a million litres of wine here. The main stockists were Juan José Arrate, Miñaur and Valentín Heredia.
My enthusiasm for the world of wine-making proved to be contagious and my husband Antonio Diez-Caballero, an industrial engineer whose forbears owned some fine vineyards in Elciego, was able to split his time between his work in copper metallurgy and the winery. Our children Victoria and Antonio joined the work-force as soon as they left university, so ours is an entirely family-run company. Indeed, the only non-family members with whom we deal regularly are repeat customers.
I have chosen to make this a small winery that takes special care of its wines and pays them all the attention that they deserve in order to realize their full, magical potential.
As we embark on this adventure to produce unforgettable wines, the mainstay of our efforts is our oenologist Manuel Ruiz Hernández, with Antonio Diez-Caballero Junior running the day-to-day affairs of the company.