Gil Family Estates has a wide portfolio of Spanish wines with different characteristics and backgrounds. All of them with a common denominator: produced with different indigenous grape varietals, a refined image, and an unbeatable relation between its quality and its price.
View Supplier PageSKU | 235614 |
Country | Spain |
Region | Jumilla |
Type | Red |
Varietal | Monastrell |
Listing | Speculative |
Case Config. | 12x750ml |
Available In | BC AB |
Intense deep red cherry colour.
Powerful in nose, clean and complex very attractive fruity aromas.
Well-balanced, soft tannins with a very long finish.
Rice, pasta, vegetables, stewed meat, sausage, pork, roast meat, red and/or white meat with sauces, grilled meat, short or medium cheeses.
Crafted by the respected Juan Gil winery in the Jumilla DO, the grapes come from more than 40-year-old vines grown at an altitude over 700 metres above sea level. Meticulously handpicked and vinified in stainless steel tanks at a temperature of 25ºC, after finishing malolactic fermentation, wine was aged for 4 months into French and American oak barrels.
2022 -
"Cherry, violet edge. Red fruit, floral, spicy. Tasty, fruity, good acidity, long."
2022 -
"This juicy and easy drinking Monastrell is made from dry-farmed organic bush vines planted at 700-900m. Ripe raspberry, blueberry and black cherry aromas, with a hint of spice from light oak ageing. Generous brambly fruit, rounded tannins, ripe plum and spices on the palate with a rustic hint to the finish. A versatile food wine."
2020 -
2020 -
"Blackberries, plums, bark, mushrooms and sweet spices on the nose. It’s medium-to full-bodied with sleek tannins. Soft and spicy. Vegan. Drink now."
2020 -
"Here’s a great value, flavourful red wine that’s packed with concentrated ripe-fruit flavours and rounded out by earthy and cedary notes. The silky-smooth texture makes for a crowd-pleasing style, with enough complexity and character to keep your senses engaged. Drink now to 2025."
2019 -
2018 -
"This juicy and vibrant, summer-berry and wild-cherry nose leads to a very plush and deep-set palate with a sleek, juicy and attractive feel. So vibrant. Drink now."
2018 -
2018 -
Best value
2017 -
2017 -
"Busy, warm, open, luxurious, hedonistic, soft and more: this is Juan Gill yellow label in a nutshell. There are cherries and chocolates, baked blackcurrant, raisin, and licorice, with chalky tannins. Rustic and frankly a touch rambunctious, it is a party red par excellence best paired with meatball appetizers. Ready to drink."
2015 -
20 under $20 for September 2016 "...Speaking of stuffing, there is a ton of it in the 2015 Monastrell from Juan Gil, a wine that manages to be fruity, big and oaky while retaining a great level of drinkability. Clearly, mourvedre (monastrell, in Spanish) finds a very peculiar balance on the sunny slopes of southern Spain."
2014 -
Best Value "Full-bodied, juicy, savoury and delicious Spanish red wine offering great value. Loaded with dark wild blackberries, purple plums and forest-deep cherries and cedar. Decant this wine 1-2 hours for maximum pleasure. Pair with veal chops."
2014 -
"Full of spicy ripe blackberry and plum fruit, delicate vanilla and sweet cedar spice. Layers of lush spiced plum and sweet black cherry fruit with a distinctly dry and earthy undercurrent."
2014 -
"Gloriously expressive aromas of blueberries and warm oak spice. The palate is a veritable basket of bold bramble fruit. Great concentration here. Powerful yet carefully restrained with fine grained tannins. Well-made style."
2013 -
5 Stars
"This luxurious red boasts a sumptuous nose of blackberry, damson and smoke. The palate is well balanced with ripe tannins and a crisp seam of acidity. A REMARKABLE VALUE!"