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HIGH 90’S (97, 96, double 94s) for this fine 2011 Imperial Gran Reserva AND only made in exceptional vintage years, cellared and stored with the supplier. $139 SRP. $84 here. 40% off a wine that ages for decades.

- Wine Enthusiast singled it out as an Editors Choice AND landed on their TOP 100 Wines of 2019 list, RANKING # 5

- Decanter wrote about it in their recently published ‘2026 World Cup Wine’ series this month and calling it ”..an iconic bottle…to splurge on..”

- John Gilman wrote ”is the epitome of a classic example of this bottling..offering up superb purity and focus on both the nose and palate..”

- Vinous wrote ”..excellent depth and energy, and a spine of juicy acidity provides added lift and back-end cut. Melds richness and vivacity..”

- Wine Advocate wrote ”always looking forward to tasting CVNE’s Gran Reserva bottlings, especially the 2011 Imperial Gran Reserva, as the year was highly praised”

The fruit for Imperial Gran Reserva comes from CVNE’s best vineyards, all over 40 years in age and almost all bush vines

We brought in three consecutive vintages (2009, 2010, 2011) specifically for Marathon. Today is a rare opportunity to build a vertical of one of Spain’s most celebrated labels. If you are quick to the click..and stay on; you may just score these wines!! Due to its scarcity and being a highly collectible wine; in demand for the collector and connoisseur hive’s. We were only able to snag a handful of cases for this wine. Hope you get it and the other two! We don’t think it will last more than 30 minutes in the queue.

Old vine parcels in Briones and Villalba provide the fruit for this exceptional blend of Tempranillo with 10% Graciano and 5% Mazuelo. This is a wine to drink now or, better still, cellar for a decade or more: sweet oak, black fruits, Asian spices and remarkable focus and freshness. Great value, too.

40% OFF and a chance for a rare collectible library vintage…no thinking needed.

97 Points - Wine Enthusiast - Editor’s Choice - “This is a fabulous gran reserva from a very good but lightly heralded vintage. Aromas of spiced plum, black olive, fig, tobacco and cassis come together like a puzzle. A deep, pure palate shows near-perfect balance, while this tastes of plum, berry fruits and earthy spice. Smooth, elegant and chocolaty on the finish, this delivers all one can ask for from Rioja. Drink through 2035”

96 Points - Tim Atkin, Master of Wine - ”…… this is the latest in a series of brilliant Imperial Gran Reservas: serious, dense and showing old vine concentration, with sweet liquorice, blackberry and bramble flavours, a lick of oak and chalky intensity.”

94 Points - John Gilman - ”Though 2011 was a hot, dry vintage in Rioja (except for an atypically cool month of July), the 2011 Imperial Gran Reserva is the epitome of a classic example of this bottling, coming in at 13.45 percent alcohol and offering up superb purity and focus on both the nose and palate. The beautiful bouquet wafts from the glass in a mix of red and black cherries, chalky soil tones, Cuban cigar wrapper, woodsmoke, brown spices and a refined framing of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, precise and beautifully deep at the core, with outstanding soil signature, suave tannins, great precision and balance and a very, very long, vibrant, and complex finish. This is just blossoming and is a delicious drink today, but with decades and decades of life still to unfold with further cellaring.”

94 Points - Vinous - ”Vivid ruby-red. Highly perfumed aromas of red fruit liqueur, candied flowers, vanilla and incense; spice cake, vanilla and smoky mineral flourishes emerge with air. Palate-staining raspberry, cherry-vanilla and rose pastille flavors display excellent depth and energy, and a spine of juicy acidity provides added lift and back-end cut. Melds richness and vivacity with a sure hand and finishes with lingering sweetness, fine-grained tannins and a touch of smokiness. Drink 2021-2034”

93+ Points - Wine Advocate - ”I’m always looking forward to tasting CVNE’s Gran Reserva bottlings, especially the 2011 Imperial Gran Reserva, as the year was highly praised, and I was very curious to see how it behaved. It’s a classical blend of Tempranillo with 10% Graciano and 5% Mazuelo that matured in barrel for two years. It has good depth and complexity in the nose, nicely layered, very balsamic and tertiary. It feels elegant and harmonious. The palate is surprisingly fresh and vibrant, with finesse, freshness, fine and mostly resolved tannins and a fine thread of acidity that holds and lifts up the finish. Drink 2018-2028.”