Gauby’s Muntada is a cellar selection of top barrels made in a reserve style, typically Grenache-based and containing large portions of fruit from their 90-year-old vines. Clearly the apex of the line-up, it delivers a staggeringly complex aromatic profile starting with intense anise, iron, rocky soil tones, and fresh mint. With air, a deep fruit character emerges as tart raspberry, dark cherry pits, and cherry compote. To underscore the nascent complexity in this young wine (yes, it’s young at seven), you’ll also notice smoked meat, white pepper, clove, juniper, and lilac. Stunning, and that’s just the nose. The palate needs air, but the incredibly precise structure and texture are immediately apparent. Wild forest berries, black currant, and dried violet come to the fore, with a firm spine of chalk and granite backing them up. The tannins only get more refined with time, as secondary flavors of iron, garrigue, asphalt, pine resin, and graphite ride a mesmerizing finish. This will be a phenomenal wine for the next 20 years.
95-96 points, Andrew Kitz, B-21 France Buyer (Feb 2026)
The Côtes du Roussillon “Muntada” bottling from Domaine Gauby is their reserve red wine, made from a barrel selection in the cellars of the finest casks of syrah, mourvèdre and carignan. Like many of the domaine’s other wines, production from old vines ranging to more than ninety years of age can be included here, but this is not an old vine cuvée per se, but a selection of the finest barrels to make as fine a reserve wine as possible. The 2019 Muntada comes in at fourteen percent octane and offers up a stunning bouquet of red and black raspberries, smoked meats, pepper, a complex base of stony soil, garrigue, black tea, distant bonfire and a topnote of lavender. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and impeccably balanced, with an outstanding core of fruit, excellent soil signature, ripe, buried tannins and excellent focus on the very long and very promising finish. This is a truly stunning young wine that is as good as anything being made in Châteauneuf du Pape these days, and maybe better, as it only tips the scales at fourteen percent octane is more elegant than most Châteauneuf in our age of global warming.
94+ points, John Gilman, View From The Cellar (Oct 2025)
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