2015 | Artadi | La Poza de Ballesteros

Description

Red Wine: 2015 | Artadi | La Poza de Ballesteros

Plenty of earth, spice, meat and dark-berry aromas follow through to a medium-to full-bodied palate with dusty tannins and blue fruit. It’s flavorful and balanced. From organically grown grapes.

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Producer: Artadi

Ratings: WA | 92

Vintage: 2015

Size: 750ml

Varietal: Tempranillo

Country/Region: Spain, Rioja

Plenty of earth, spice, meat and dark-berry aromas follow through to a medium-to full-bodied palate with dusty tannins and blue fruit. It’s flavorful and balanced. From organically grown grapes.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The slightly cooler growing season benefited the 2015 La Poza de Ballesteros, which comes from a more generous vineyard with deeper soils that tend to produce more generous wines from riper fruit. The more approachable wines from this vintage saw a shorter élevage, and La Poza only spent nine months in barrel. Here, I did have a preference between this 2015 and 2014, always a fruit-driven wine, with lush fruit and roundness. 4,000 bottles produced.

Producer Information

The Artadi estate was created in 1985 by the dynamic visionary winemaker, Juan Carlos Lopez de la Calle. His objective was to seek and nurture the concept that Tempranillo, when cultivated at high altitude, low-cropped, and from old vines, produces extraordinarily rich and profound wines. This, coupled with specific barrel treatments (with minor American oak influences) produces some of Rioja’s best wines.
Artadi is about purity of extracted fruit with almost Burgundian textures. In fact, critics have often compared these wines to the top wines of Chambolle-Musigny and other top appellations of Burgundy. The key to this level of elegance comes from the cold wines of the Pyrenees which blow from the north. This coupled with moderate temperatures tend to make these wines a study in elegance and power, the iron fist in a velvet glove if you will. They are some of the most extraordinary examples of Tempranillo in the world.