Marques de Caceres Rioja Gaudium 2020 NO20230816 The palate flows like silk

The palate flows like silk

jasmine and peony

and this is a great example

by the people who made the wine

also made of French oak

Marques de Caceres Rioja Gaudium 2020 NO20230816 The palate flows like silkThis 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