2018 Marqués de Cáceres Gaudium

A bold, complex wine with dark fruit, chocolate, tobacco, and coffee notes, supported by robust tannins and a long finish, aged for two years in new French oak.

Producer

Marqués de Cáceres

Region

Rioja

Country

Spain

Varietal

Tempranillo

Varietal Composition

100% Tempranillo

Specifications

2018

Vintage

2032

Drink By

ABV

Vinification

Hand harvested grapes from select parcels of several vineyards with vines aged from 70 to over 100 years. Prolonged maceration and slow alcoholic fermentation, with malolactic fermentation in French oak barrels. Aged 18 months in new French oak and 2 more years in bottle

Occasional wine note

Like the 2016 offering that we loved, this is a big wine made bigger with 2 years of aging, 18 months in new French oak barrels. The dark fruit, chocolate, tobacco, and coffee are complemented by sturdy tannins. There's a lot going on with this wine from nose to long finish. It's definitely not for the faint of heart.

What experts say about this wine

100

Tim Atkin

Well up to the standard of previous Gaudiums, the 2018 release is wonderfully focused, fine, layered and well balanced. Pairing Tempranillo with 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, it's a wine inspired by classed growth Bordeaux as much as Rioja. Polished and perfumed, with bramble, cassis and capsicum flavours and top class 50% new French oak. 2025-40

100

Guia Penin

Colour, deep cherry, garnet rim. Aroma, aged wood nuances, ripe fruit, cocoa bean, cigar, toasty, dark chocolate, aromatic coffee. Flavour, flavourful, spicy, toasty, powerful tannins.

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