🏷️ Roble

Roble is a Spanish label for wine that spent a short time, a few months, in oak. Roble means oak in Spanish. Such wine is older than joven, a young wine without oak ageing, but younger than crianza.

The term belongs to the Spanish ageing categories: joven, roble, crianza, reserva and gran reserva. The longer the wine has spent in barrel and bottle, the higher the category. Roble has a shorter minimum time in oak than crianza, so the oak taste is softer: a little vanilla, spice and toast, while the wine stays fruity.

Roble is usually a red wine based on Tempranillo. People like it for its fair price and nice balance between the freshness of young wine and the softness of aged wine. The word is often seen on labels from Ribera del Duero and other regions. It belongs to Spanish wine and has no single Europe-wide meaning.