Marques de Caceres Rioja Gaudium 2020 NO UPC and the wines lean more

and the wines lean more toward Puligny's tension and precision than Chassagne's richness

multilayered cider

The result has the floral

slow fermentation gives everything here

a cult bottle that lands on collectors' lists and almost never on retail shelves

Marques de Caceres Rioja Gaudium 2020 NO UPC and the wines lean moreThis 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