Marques de Caceres Rioja Gaudium 2020 JULY4 Fermented in stainless steel and

Fermented in stainless steel and aged on the lees before release

Guigal acquired this historic estate in 2017 and immediately turned it into a beacon for the appellation

It comes from steep alpine slopes between Lyon and Geneva and is made by methode ancestrale - one fermentation

All the processing is carried out in the respect of nature

and a delicate finish

Marques de Caceres Rioja Gaudium 2020 JULY4 Fermented in stainless steel andThis 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