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Vermouth Lucendo

Selección Lucendo

Valdepeñas , España

90 Peñín External reference

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Overall impression

Vermouth Lucendo is the red vermouth of Selección Lucendo (Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real), made from aromatised sweet white wines and traditional mistelas. According to seleccionlucendo.com, it carries the legacy of César Lucendo Asensi — the house great-grandfather — and more than a hundred years of maceration techniques with wormwood, gentian, ginger, cinnamon, clove, iris root, quinine and a hundred more herbs. The winery presents it as mahogany red, aromatic, with sweetly bitter persistence, aimed at aperitif hour. 1 L format, 15% vol. Distributors also document oak-barrel ageing and 90 Guía Peñín points; Jancis Robinson scored it 17.5/20 according to channels aligned with the house.

Nose and palate

Pending evaluation.

How to serve it

Serve over ice with an orange slice or peel, per commercial sheet recommendations; typical aperitif temperature around 6–10 °C. Pairs with preserves, pickles and salted fish. Ideal as a Manchego table vermouth before the meal.

Production context

Made by Selección Lucendo in Valdepeñas (Avda. Gregorio Prieto, 5, 13300 Ciudad Real). Base of sweet white wines and mistelas; maceration with wormwood, gentian, ginger, cinnamon, clove, iris root, quinine and a broad range of herbs, per the official description. Sales channels cite stainless-steel fermentation and oak-barrel ageing, with residual sugar around 130 g/L. 15% vol., 1 L presentation; contains sulphites.

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