Marques de Caceres Rioja Gaudium 2020 JULY4 and a delicate finish

and a delicate finish

Fermented in stainless steel and aged on the lees before release

the vines yield a wine of crushed stone minerality and snappy red fruit—pomegranate and cranberry notes dancing with lavender and herbs

which includes the 10% traditionally macerated Pinot Noir wines

Marques de Caceres Rioja Gaudium 2020 JULY4 and a delicate finishThis is the bottle Marques de Caceres makes when it wants to prove a point. Gaudium (Latin for joy) comes from tiny old vine plots scattered across Rioja Alta and the high terraces of Rioja Alavesa, some vines over seventy years old and a few pre phylloxera survivors past a century. Yields are brutal by design, under a kilo of fruit per plant, and the grapes are hand picked in small boxes and sorted cluster by cluster before native yeast fermentation