2018 Marqués de Cáceres Gaudium

$49.95

Vivino Rating

4.3

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.

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About the bottle

Country

Spain

Region

Rioja

Producer

Marqués de Cáceres

Vareital

Tempranillo

Vareital Composition

100% Tempranillo

Pairs With

Specifications

2018

Vintage

2032

Drink By

14.5

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

Notes from critics

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.

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

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.