2016 Marques de Caceres, Gaudium

96 Points: Cáceres’ icon red combines Tempranillo with 5% Graciano, sourced from six old-vine parcels in the Rioja Alta and Alavesa sub-regions. Concentrated, self-assured and built to develop in bottle along lines that owe as much to Bordeaux as to Rioja, this has intense flavours of cassis, blackberry and mint, spicy, scented oak, sculpted tannins and a persistent finish. 2026-36