Bodegas Juan Gil Blue Label (2023)

Founded in 1916 by Juan Gil Jiménez, a stone mason, in Jumilla, Murcia, Bodegas Juan Gil remains family-owned across four generations, serving as the flagship of Gil Family Estates, which now includes multiple wineries across Spain. The estate was created to showcase the quality of Monastrell, a grape deeply tied to Jumilla’s identity.

The 2023 Bodegas Juan Gil Blue Label is aged 18 months in French and American oak barrels. It has a red cherry color with garnet rim and powerful aroma of black fruits, roasted and balsamic notes. Complex and well-structured, unctuous and rounded, pleasant mouth-feel and very persistent with roasted, cocoa and spice hints. Balanced and harmonious, tasty, long and elegant finish marked by the sweetness from noble tannins of very ripe fruits, displaying its potential for bottle aging. It is a blend of 60% Monastrell, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 10% Syrah.