Gaudeamus Roble

Bodega Hermanos del Villar

Lively deep cherry colour, intense red and black fruits aromas combined with a soft touch of wood and caramel. Black ink and minerals. Voluminous with persistence, if you get my drift -if not then it is a BIG wine without being overly brooding. Fresh and well-integrated acidity. refined, well balanced and elegant. Yum!

Cheese, white meat, cold and game meat.

Night harvest at temperatures < 15ºC (same as for our white wines from Rueda). Maceration previous to fermentation to extract fruit aromas. Controlled fermentation at 26ºC with our own yeast and few pumping over followed by two days of maceration. Bleeding of the wine without pressing and consecutive malolactic fermentation. The wine is aged in French (45%) and American (55%) oak barrels for 5 months. Before bottling it was kept for another two months in deposit. Barrels used are new (33%) and the rest from second and third year used.

Jancisrobinson.com, 2025, 16.5 points: "This is unbelievably good value, outshining the Gordon Ramsay 'Intenso Rosso', selling at a similar retail price, by a substantial margin. The fruit is dark-berried, ripe but not jammy, cool with light menthol freshness, and tucked into only-just-smooth, gliding tannins, which tug into the finish. Well done to make such a good wine at this price."