{"title":"Artadi","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"artadi-vinas-de-gain-blanco-2018","title":"Artadi Vinas de Gain Blanco 2018","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e92-93 Points |  The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe white 2018 Viñas de Gaín Blanco comes from a number of vineyards in Laguardia and Elvillar at 450 to 700 meters in altitude on clay and limestone soils. In this rainy and cooler year, it fermented with some skins and then matured for two years and four months in stainless steel (plus a handful of barrels) and finished with 13% alcohol and a pH of 3.33. It has a strong and acute note of fennel and aniseed, white flowers and musk, with a lively palate from the cool vintage; it's balanced and has purity, without very showy aromas—a white for food. 12,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in April 2020. In 2020 and 2021, there will be a little less white wine, as they have added some white grapes to the reds.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the wines from Artadi as part of their annual portfolio tasting when I covered the bottled 2019s and barrel samples of (some of) the 2020s. I've reproduced the notes and comments here for context and completeness of the article.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2019 was slightly drier and warmer than average, and there was an episode of hail as late as August 25th, which seriously affected the vineyards located in the south of Laguardia and Elvillar; the plots of San Ginés, Valmayor, Cuerdamayor, La Ceposilla, Parredonda and Las Ventas, among others, registered significant damage. They started picking the whites on September 20 and finished the last of the reds on October 10. The grapes were clean and healthy, with 35% less grapes than in 2018.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2020 was a challenging year with a loss of 30% of the crops from mildew. All of their vineyards are now certified organic, and they suffered more because of that. It's a relatively fresh vintage, cooler than 2019 but without its complexity, with more ethereal, approachable and fruit-driven wines with red rather than black fruit. Carlos de la Calle compared 2020 to 2007, a subtle and fruit-driven vintage. 2021 goes back to the fresher and more energetic style of 2018.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThe range keeps growing, and in 2020, they started making white single-vineyard wines (one 500-liter barrel of each), but they still don't know if they are going to be sold or if they are going to drink them themselves. There might be Carretil and El Pisón whites!\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42533623660712,"sku":"SPN00490120","price":66.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/yourwinefixArtadiVinasdeGainBlanco2018.jpg?v=1685075201"},{"product_id":"artadi-la-poza-de-ballesteros-2019","title":"Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2019","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e91-92 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2019 La Poza de Ballesteros is a powerful and ripe wine with 14.66% alcohol and ripe fruit, volume and round and dense tannins. It's from a 1.18-hectare plot of vines planted in 1960 on deep brown soils, and the exposition to the afternoon sun and the deeper soils give the grapes more ripeness—and this wine is always a riper expression of Tempranillo. It has notes of black fruit and tobacco, and it's round and generous, more voluptuous, with round tannins and instant gratification. It's expressive and direct, quite gentle. 4,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2021.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the wines from Artadi as part of their annual portfolio tasting when I covered the bottled 2019s and barrel samples of (some of) the 2020s. I've reproduced the notes and comments here for context and completeness of the article.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2019 was slightly drier and warmer than average, and there was an episode of hail as late as August 25th, which seriously affected the vineyards located in the south of Laguardia and Elvillar; the plots of San Ginés, Valmayor, Cuerdamayor, La Ceposilla, Parredonda and Las Ventas, among others, registered significant damage. They started picking the whites on September 20 and finished the last of the reds on October 10. The grapes were clean and healthy, with 35% less grapes than in 2018.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2020 was a challenging year with a loss of 30% of the crops from mildew. All of their vineyards are now certified organic, and they suffered more because of that. It's a relatively fresh vintage, cooler than 2019 but without its complexity, with more ethereal, approachable and fruit-driven wines with red rather than black fruit. Carlos de la Calle compared 2020 to 2007, a subtle and fruit-driven vintage. 2021 goes back to the fresher and more energetic style of 2018.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThe range keeps growing, and in 2020, they started making white single-vineyard wines (one 500-liter barrel of each), but they still don't know if they are going to be sold or if they are going to drink them themselves. There might be Carretil and El Pisón whites!\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44427614617768,"sku":"SPN00490082","price":158.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/yourwinefixArtadiLaPozadeBallesteros2019.jpg?v=1692255226"},{"product_id":"artadi-vinas-de-gain-blanco-2013","title":"Artadi Vinas de Gain Blanco 2013","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e92 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI'm glad Artadi had resumed production of their white wine and I could taste the 2013 Viñas de Gaín Blanco. Of course, 2013 was a wetter, cooler and certainly more challenging year, with a late harvest of a short crop. The grapes come from multiple vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and Elvillar, partly fermented in oak and aged in contact with the lees in stainless steel for 15 months. It has a honeyed and perfumed nose with notes of chamomile, dried flowers, straw, white pepper, citrus and some yeasty, cereal-like notes. The palate is serious and a little strict, with marked acidity, good weight and even some fine tannins. This is certainly drinkable now, but the Viura grape is one that develops for a long time in bottle, even more so in a fresh year like this. The question is whether you like it fresher or with more bottle age. 4,000 bottles produced.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis was my first visit to Artadi since they left the Rioja appellation of origin. The wines are bottled as Vino de España, even though all their grapes grow within the Rioja limits. They work 80 hectares of vineyards mainly in their village, Laguardia, and neighboring Elvillar. They age their wines in some 800 barrels and each vintage gives them some 400,000 bottles to sell.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2014, 2015 and 2016 vintages. The 2016s are still unbottled, mainly because 2016 is a year of big change, but I wanted to bring you the information sooner rather than later. So, there are new wines in 2016 from Artadi! The 2014 vintage has more structure, wines for long aging in bottle (they are a bit closed now, but they benefit from decanting). 2015 has more fruit without the tannic structure of 2014, more accessible with rounder tannins, expressive and gentle, very clean and defined. 2016 was a big crop in the zone, producing more ethereal wines but with lots of depth, an improved version of 2008 with high acidity. In 2016 they lowered the time in oak. The wines were taken out of barrel when malolactic finished, some eight months in the case of this vintage, because malolactic is slow. In 2015 they had already started trying to have less time in barrel, but the big change is in 2016.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44427652464808,"sku":"SPN00490043","price":66.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/yourwinefixArtadi_VinasdeGainBlanco2013.png?v=1692256681"},{"product_id":"artadi-valdegines-2020","title":"Artadi Valdegines 2020","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e94 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2020 Valdeginés was bottled after the shorter élevage in barrel, as it was transferred to tank after it finished malolactic. It has 14.5% alcohol and a fruit-driven personality and is fresh and balanced with very fine, grainy tannins. Valdeginés is 4.1 hectares of vines planted in Laguardia between 1982 and 1989 on silty and limestone soils. It fermented in open oak vats with a soft vinification followed by malolactic and nine months in barrel. This is elegant, balanced and medium-bodied, with a very silky mouthfeel, fine tannins and a clean and harmonious finish. 13,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2022. It was a short crop; they lost maybe 40% to mildew, and that might have given it additional concentration.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. They have been working to understand their soils in the valley, where they have quite a lot of sand in the vineyards.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49192145551528,"sku":"SPN00490107","price":92.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/SPN00490107.jpg?v=1767778443"},{"product_id":"artadi-la-hoya-2020","title":"Artadi La Hoya 2020","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e93 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2020 La Hoya is earthy and tannic and has the chalky sensation from the limestone soils. This comes from a large vineyard of over three hectares that was initially sold exclusively in the UK but is now more widely available. 3,600 bottles were filled in June 2022.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. They have been working to understand their soils in the valley, where they have quite a lot of sand in the vineyards.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49192194277544,"sku":"SPN00490108","price":125.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/NoImage_78ff0384-03e8-44e0-96ad-5775c1e7caf1.png?v=1764067474"},{"product_id":"artadi-san-lazaro-2020","title":"Artadi San Lazaro 2020","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e95+ Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI was looking forward to the bottled version of the 2020 San Lázaro, my favorite of the \"new\" single-vineyard bottlings from a plot that previously contributed to the Pagos Viejos. The sample I tasted last time showed big bones and a slim structure, an ethereal wine that was long and floral, spicy and fresh. In 2020, they used a little bit of white grapes, and there's even more in 2021, when they decided to systematically use 2% to 4% of white grapes in the vineyards where the grapes are interplanted with the Tempranillo. This wine has finesse and is slender and delicate, with something ethereal about it, quite open and a little more advanced, with some unexpected toasty notes. Here, the majority of barrels were 500-liter ones (three 500-liter and two 225-liter barrels). 2,000 bottles were filled in June 2021.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. They have been working to understand their soils in the valley, where they have quite a lot of sand in the vineyards.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49192210661544,"sku":"SPN00490110","price":172.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/SPN00490110.jpg?v=1767778960"},{"product_id":"artadi-valdegines-2021","title":"Artadi Valdegines 2021","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e94+ Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe bottled 2021 Valdeginés showed much better than the unbottled sample I tasted last time. The wine is a little austere, very integrated and harmonious, with fine tannins. It feels very young and undeveloped but with high potential, with all the elements and balance to age nicely in bottle. The 2021s are going to need time in bottle. Carlos López de Lacalle says Valdeginés is a serious wine but with a jovial palate, with energy and charm. 15,000 bottles were produced, which is the largest production of the single-vineyard wines. It was bottled in May 2023.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. Alcohol levers are around 14.5%, which defined the style of the wines, ripe without excess with balance and good freshness.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49193093071016,"sku":"SPN00490127","price":92.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/SPN00490127.jpg?v=1767778637"},{"product_id":"artadi-wine-dinner-tinto","title":"Artadi Wine Dinner @ Tinto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003eIndulge in an evening at Tinto with Patricia López de Lacalle. This intimate dinner will showcase Artadi’s finest wines, each paired with a refined Spanish menu for an unforgettable experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eS$138++ per pax\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53881389318312,"sku":null,"price":165.46,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/TintoxArtadi-15Oct25-PromoImage.png?v=1758523946"},{"product_id":"artadi-vinas-de-gain-blanco-2020","title":"Artadi Vinas de Gain Blanco 2020","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e94 Points | The Wine Advocate,  Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe only white produced here is the 2020 Viñas de Gaín Blanco, which is balsamic and aromatic, floral and herbaceous, from a fresher and more elegant vintage. It fermented with some skins to give it complexity and volume, but he has reduced the time the wine is in contact with the skins, and this year, the wine finished part of the fermentation in used 600-liter demi-muids and was kept in stainless steel with lees for two years. They have stopped racking the white, and they feel it keeps a livelier character. It has the profile of the traditional Rioja whites with a modern twist, cleaner, more focused and precise. It has a moderate 13% alcohol, a pH of 3.31 and 6.05 grams of sugar, fresh and vibrant. It's beautiful, possibly the best year for the white and a year they think was better for the white than for the reds. Bravo! 10,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2022.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. Alcohol levers are around 14.5%, which defined the style of the wines, ripe without excess with balance and good freshness.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55450930217128,"sku":"SPN00490178","price":66.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_c88d07a4-d819-48d8-a574-c2a65fe0601e.png?v=1781764349"},{"product_id":"artadi-el-carretil-2020","title":"Artadi El Carretil 2020","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e97 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2020 El Carretil is fresh and fruit-driven with very fine, chalky tannins from the very high limestone and silt content in the soil, and it has the elegance of the sand component of the \"salagón\" soils. I found very good precision and elegance in this wine, from a vineyard that behaves well in less warm years and suffers in dry conditions. However, I found the wine to be spectacular, with balance and freshness, and it's very clean and fine-boned. It should develop nicely in bottle. 5,000 bottles were filled in June 2022.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. They have been working to understand their soils in the valley, where they have quite a lot of sand in the vineyards.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451001094312,"sku":"SPN00490112","price":245.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_cd1cee58-da42-4f09-9008-3e82e1b19261.png?v=1781764350"},{"product_id":"artadi-el-carretil-2021","title":"Artadi El Carretil 2021","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e95-97 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe nose of the 2021 El Carretil is an explosion of flowers; it's aromatic, perfumed, open, expressive and super elegant, clean, nuanced and showy. It has a seamless palate with very fine tannins, ethereal, with lots of energy and light. This has to be the finest vintage of El Carretil to date. Today, this hits the bull's-eye. Bravo! 5,300 bottles were filled in May 2023.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. Alcohol levers are around 14.5%, which defined the style of the wines, ripe without excess with balance and good freshness.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451001225384,"sku":"SPN00490134","price":245.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_de5bdd1f-c4db-4366-a209-8b05944576ad.png?v=1781764350"},{"product_id":"artadi-el-carretil-2023","title":"Artadi El Carretil 2023","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e95-97 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe unbottled 2023 El Carretil was in stainless steel after having completed the first winter in demi-muids and (part of) the second one in oak vat, where it should be until it's bottled. Despite a sensation of higher ripeness from the nose, it has very good finesse and a very chalky mouthfeel, textured, with grip and clout. It has lower alcohol, 14.35% (and, apparently, the 2024 will be around 14%). There should be around 5,000 bottles of this 2023 when it's bottled. It should be bottled in May or June 2025.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. The key difference in 2023 was the rain in early September, which changed the character of the year despite the 254 liters in total rainfall, half of the annual average, so yields were lower; but the wines, from grapes harvested until mid-October, are fresher, elegant and more fluid, yet there's a higher sense of ripeness and darker color (and aromas) in the 2023s. 2022 has turned out much better than expected. The wines have red fruit, low-ish pH and more delicacy than you'd think because of the extreme warm and dry year. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger volumes and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. But 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls textbook. I look forward to tasting them next year.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451008893096,"sku":"SPN00490175","price":245.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_9b970068-8973-4670-8b2e-1435af390575.png?v=1781764350"},{"product_id":"artadi-el-carretil-2020-1-5l","title":"Artadi El Carretil 2020 (1.5L)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e97 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2020 El Carretil is fresh and fruit-driven with very fine, chalky tannins from the very high limestone and silt content in the soil, and it has the elegance of the sand component of the \"salagón\" soils. I found very good precision and elegance in this wine, from a vineyard that behaves well in less warm years and suffers in dry conditions. However, I found the wine to be spectacular, with balance and freshness, and it's very clean and fine-boned. It should develop nicely in bottle. 5,000 bottles were filled in June 2022.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. They have been working to understand their soils in the valley, where they have quite a lot of sand in the vineyards.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451010105512,"sku":"SPN00490115","price":518.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_dffa2b98-c153-4d74-8ff7-61a73ddf7b1f.png?v=1781764350"},{"product_id":"artadi-el-carretil-2021-1-5l","title":"Artadi El Carretil 2021 (1.5L)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"box-sizing: border-box\"\u003e95-97 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eThe nose of the 2021 El Carretil is an explosion of flowers; it's aromatic, perfumed, open, expressive and super elegant, clean, nuanced and showy. It has a seamless palate with very fine tannins, ethereal, with lots of energy and light. This has to be the finest vintage of El Carretil to date. Today, this hits the bull's-eye. Bravo! 5,300 bottles were filled in May 2023.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; display: inline !important; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)\"\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. Alcohol levers are around 14.5%, which defined the style of the wines, ripe without excess with balance and good freshness.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451012858024,"sku":"SPN00490138","price":518.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_e3321d57-8451-4733-adf4-9a1411c7eb9d.png?v=1781764351"},{"product_id":"artadi-la-poza-de-ballesteros-2020","title":"Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2020","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e93+ Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2020 La Poza de Ballesteros is a powerful and ripe wine with 14.66% alcohol and ripe fruit, volume and round and dense tannins. It's from a 1.18-hectare plot of vines planted in 1960 on deep brown soils, and the exposition to the afternoon sun and the deeper soils gives the grapes more ripeness—and this wine is always a riper expression of Tempranillo. It's unctuous, with contained ripeness, fresher fruit and fine, slightly dusty tannins. It's balsamic, clean and fresh with some aniseed and fennel aromas and a silky, gentle palate, with less ripe sensations than in past vintages. 3,800 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2022 and in barrel until June 2021.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. They have been working to understand their soils in the valley, where they have quite a lot of sand in the vineyards.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451050213544,"sku":"SPN00490111","price":158.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_2adb62ee-9c03-486f-9c5c-8354decf3197.png?v=1781764351"},{"product_id":"artadi-la-poza-de-ballesteros-2021","title":"Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2021","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e93-95 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThere is a note of fennel in the 2021 La Poza de Ballesteros, a wine that is more open, approachable and round, with a gentler palate. It feels comfortable and velvety. This is the opposite slope to Valdeginés, a soil with more sand. 4,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2023.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. Alcohol levers are around 14.5%, which defined the style of the wines, ripe without excess with balance and good freshness.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451050475688,"sku":"SPN00490133","price":158.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_934161d2-e448-4073-a5a6-2df426c13998.png?v=1781764351"},{"product_id":"artadi-la-poza-de-ballesteros-2022","title":"Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2022","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e94+ Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2022 La Poza de Ballesteros is always the wine I find to be riper, even if the ripeness is more and more controlled. It's ripe but not heavy. It's from an east-facing vineyard, but the deep soils have good hydric reserves and provide freshness. It has balance, 14.66% alcohol, a pH of 3.68 and 4.83 grams of acidity. It's juicy and more fruit-driven but starting to show the limestone chalkiness. 4,000 bottles were filled in June 2024.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. The key difference in 2023 was the rain in early September, which changed the character of the year despite the 254 liters in total rainfall, half of the annual average, so yields were lower; but the wines, from grapes harvested until mid-October, are fresher, elegant and more fluid, yet there's a higher sense of ripeness and darker color (and aromas) in the 2023s. 2022 has turned out much better than expected. The wines have red fruit, low-ish pH and more delicacy than you'd think because of the extreme warm and dry year. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger volumes and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. But 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls textbook. I look forward to tasting them next year.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451050868904,"sku":"SPN00490154","price":158.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_ea442ffe-3f57-4804-9a26-b51ede7e3a4a.png?v=1781764355"},{"product_id":"artadi-san-lazaro-2019","title":"Artadi San Lazaro 2019","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e95-96 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe bottled 2019 San Lázaro delivered what the sample promised back in January. It comes from one of my favorite vineyards, a 1.62-hectare plot in Laguardia just below Bodegas Palacio that was planted in 1956 on limestone and sand soils that produce elegant wines. In the past, the vineyard contributed to the Pagos Viejos blend that has been bottled separately since 2016 and has quickly taken a leading position in the Artadi hierarchy. The wine is complex and nuanced, serious and insinuating, with fine aromas of herbs and flowers and a lively and balanced palate with ultra fine, abundant and chalky tannins. Superb! 2,000 bottles were filled in June 2021.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the wines from Artadi as part of their annual portfolio tasting when I covered the bottled 2019s and barrel samples of (some of) the 2020s. I've reproduced the notes and comments here for context and completeness of the article.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2019 was slightly drier and warmer than average, and there was an episode of hail as late as August 25th, which seriously affected the vineyards located in the south of Laguardia and Elvillar; the plots of San Ginés, Valmayor, Cuerdamayor, La Ceposilla, Parredonda and Las Ventas, among others, registered significant damage. They started picking the whites on September 20 and finished the last of the reds on October 10. The grapes were clean and healthy, with 35% less grapes than in 2018.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2020 was a challenging year with a loss of 30% of the crops from mildew. All of their vineyards are now certified organic, and they suffered more because of that. It's a relatively fresh vintage, cooler than 2019 but without its complexity, with more ethereal, approachable and fruit-driven wines with red rather than black fruit. Carlos de la Calle compared 2020 to 2007, a subtle and fruit-driven vintage. 2021 goes back to the fresher and more energetic style of 2018.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThe range keeps growing, and in 2020, they started making white single-vineyard wines (one 500-liter barrel of each), but they still don't know if they are going to be sold or if they are going to drink them themselves. There might be Carretil and El Pisón whites!\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451067973800,"sku":"SPN00490083","price":172.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_11cec89d-c808-41ba-ad14-aaaa8d90f825.png?v=1781764351"},{"product_id":"artadi-san-lazaro-2021","title":"Artadi San Lazaro 2021","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e96-98 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA first bottle of the 2021 San Lázaro felt austere, serious and a little closed, but a second one was a lot more expressive and elegant but not quite reaching the expressiveness of the 2021 El Carretil that today stole the show. This is subtle, delicate and svelte, a wine of finesse (but never without power), harmonious and complete. 4,000 bottles were filled in May 2023.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. 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It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! 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It's not a shy wine at 14.6% alcohol, with a pH of 3.59 and 4.89 grams of acidity, and it's medium-bodied and elegant, with lots of finesse and very chalky and fine tannins. This vineyard has shallow soils, similar to El Pisón but with more sand. It's a strong contender for best wine after El Pisón. They filled 4,000 bottles in June 2024.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. The key difference in 2023 was the rain in early September, which changed the character of the year despite the 254 liters in total rainfall, half of the annual average, so yields were lower; but the wines, from grapes harvested until mid-October, are fresher, elegant and more fluid, yet there's a higher sense of ripeness and darker color (and aromas) in the 2023s. 2022 has turned out much better than expected. The wines have red fruit, low-ish pH and more delicacy than you'd think because of the extreme warm and dry year. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger volumes and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. But 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls textbook. 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Carlos López de Lacalle says Valdeginés is a serious wine but with a jovial palate, with energy and charm. 15,000 bottles were produced, which is the largest production of the single-vineyard wines. It was bottled in May 2023.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. 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They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. 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However, the wine has more freshness than expected, and the nose comes through as fresher than that of the 2023 I tasted next to it. This vineyard has an east exposure and soil with a higher percentage of clay, with limestone one meter down that gives it punch. It has very fine, chalky tannins. Like many 2022s, it finished in the higher part of the estimated window last year. 14,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2024.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. The key difference in 2023 was the rain in early September, which changed the character of the year despite the 254 liters in total rainfall, half of the annual average, so yields were lower; but the wines, from grapes harvested until mid-October, are fresher, elegant and more fluid, yet there's a higher sense of ripeness and darker color (and aromas) in the 2023s. 2022 has turned out much better than expected. The wines have red fruit, low-ish pH and more delicacy than you'd think because of the extreme warm and dry year. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger volumes and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. But 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls textbook. 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Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. 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Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. The key difference in 2023 was the rain in early September, which changed the character of the year despite the 254 liters in total rainfall, half of the annual average, so yields were lower; but the wines, from grapes harvested until mid-October, are fresher, elegant and more fluid, yet there's a higher sense of ripeness and darker color (and aromas) in the 2023s. 2022 has turned out much better than expected. The wines have red fruit, low-ish pH and more delicacy than you'd think because of the extreme warm and dry year. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger volumes and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. But 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls textbook. 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They feel the vineyard is improving, getting better balanced and delivering better and better grapes and wines with less rusticity and more finesse. 4,000 bottles were filled in May 2023.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. 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The wine has grown a lot and feels serious and elegant, open and expressive, showy and a little exuberant, with a very elegant palate too, seamless, with fine tannins, precise, focused and clean. They feel the vineyard is improving, getting better balanced and delivering better and better grapes and wines with less rusticity and more finesse. 4,000 bottles were filled in May 2023.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. 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It's from an east-facing 3.6-hectare vineyard planted in 1965 on deep and dark soils on hard sandstone, in a hole (that's what the name means), possibly a lake in the distant past. It combines the fruit of the sandstone with the clout of the silt and is expressive, aromatic and open. It's clean, harmonious, quite approachable and quite round, with good ripeness and 14.6% alcohol but with good overall freshness. 5,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2024.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. The key difference in 2023 was the rain in early September, which changed the character of the year despite the 254 liters in total rainfall, half of the annual average, so yields were lower; but the wines, from grapes harvested until mid-October, are fresher, elegant and more fluid, yet there's a higher sense of ripeness and darker color (and aromas) in the 2023s. 2022 has turned out much better than expected. The wines have red fruit, low-ish pH and more delicacy than you'd think because of the extreme warm and dry year. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger volumes and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. But 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls textbook. 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This is from a 1.99-hectare plot in Elvillar that was planted in 1951 on limestone and clay soils with a sandstone mother rock at some 75 centimeters from the top. It's very aromatic with notes of cinnamon, a lactic touch and a medium-bodied palate with very fine, abundant and chalky tannins. 2,500 bottles were filled in June 2021.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. They have been working to understand their soils in the valley, where they have quite a lot of sand in the vineyards.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451243184296,"sku":"SPN00490109","price":125.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_6c474c0e-4fa1-4e69-9920-b0e4914fb04e.png?v=1781764349"},{"product_id":"artadi-quintanilla-2020-1-5l","title":"Artadi Quintanilla 2020 (1.5L)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e93+ Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI also tasted the 2020 Quintanilla, a wine that looked really superb from barrel, floral, aromatic and elegant, with round tannins, fine-boned, balanced and harmonious. This is from a 1.99-hectare plot in Elvillar that was planted in 1951 on limestone and clay soils with a sandstone mother rock at some 75 centimeters from the top. It's very aromatic with notes of cinnamon, a lactic touch and a medium-bodied palate with very fine, abundant and chalky tannins. 2,500 bottles were filled in June 2021.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. They have been working to understand their soils in the valley, where they have quite a lot of sand in the vineyards.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451243511976,"sku":"SPN00490114","price":251.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_d6d0e2e8-6b9b-42ec-bdf1-daccc67573c8.png?v=1781764350"},{"product_id":"artadi-quintanilla-2021","title":"Artadi Quintanilla 2021","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e94+ Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe bottled 2021 Quintanilla comes from a very white soil that is very rich in limestone. The wine has a lot of tension and tannins with more grip than La Hoya. It has balance but feels dynamic and has very good depth. It has notes of licorice and a minty touch. It feels really energetic and nicely textured, with a fine thread on the palate and some austerity, similar to La Hoya (they are only 100 meters apart), but La Hoya is juicier and this is more serious and austere. 3,000 bottles were filled in May 2023.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. 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It has notes of licorice and a minty touch. It feels really energetic and nicely textured, with a fine thread on the palate and some austerity, similar to La Hoya (they are only 100 meters apart), but La Hoya is juicier and this is more serious and austere. 3,000 bottles were filled in May 2023.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. 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This vineyard very rich in limestone, and the vigor is limited and tends toward stress, which happened in 2022. It has some slightly dusty tannins and is not as round or ripe as other plots with marked chalkiness from the limestone in the soils. It has 14.68% alcohol and a pH of 3.65. There are 4,000 bottles of this. It was bottled in June 2024.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. The key difference in 2023 was the rain in early September, which changed the character of the year despite the 254 liters in total rainfall, half of the annual average, so yields were lower; but the wines, from grapes harvested until mid-October, are fresher, elegant and more fluid, yet there's a higher sense of ripeness and darker color (and aromas) in the 2023s. 2022 has turned out much better than expected. The wines have red fruit, low-ish pH and more delicacy than you'd think because of the extreme warm and dry year. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger volumes and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. But 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls textbook. I look forward to tasting them next year.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451305017512,"sku":"SPN00490152","price":125.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_f413088c-08fc-4632-bd07-0972aa261fd8.png?v=1781764350"},{"product_id":"artadi-quintanilla-2023","title":"Artadi Quintanilla 2023","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e94 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe bottled 2023 Quintanilla shows the finesse that the sample promised last year. This is in the higher part, and the soil is quite shallow; it's white at 80 centimeters. The grapes ripen early, despite being at almost 600 meters in altitude, and the nose is ripe but then the palate is finer-boned. It feels a little earthy. 2,953 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2025.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted with Carlos López de Lacalle, second generation in the winery. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger-volume containers and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. The aim is to obtain fine-boned wines with freshness, and he finds that in the wines from 2024. We tasted the bottled 2023s and unbottled samples of the 2024s, except for the 2024 white, which was already in bottle. 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. La Hoya and El Carretil could be the highlights from the 2023s. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls a textbook vintage. Like last time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, a village where the wines show more fruit, and darker fruit too; and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia, a village with finer-boned and mineral, profound wines. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eAlcohol levels are going down. The 2024s are around 14%, and in 2025, some wines have only 12.8% alcohol, though the majority are between 13% and 13.5%. But that was because of the 2025 vintage, which was a rainy year with lots of mildew and hail on the 11th of July, and for unknown reasons, the grapes stopped in September. But more about that next year...\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451354595496,"sku":"SPN00490172","price":125.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_10118ad0-8728-443d-8f39-d455eab57d2e.png?v=1781764351"},{"product_id":"artadi-la-poza-de-ballesteros-2023","title":"Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2023","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e94-95 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI found some spicy oak in the unbottled sample of the 2023 La Poza de Ballesteros. They harvested earlier in search of removing the ripeness and gaining in tension; but the aromatics of the 2023s are of ripe fruit, and this is no exception—it's faintly balsamic too. But the palate is finer-boned and has more elegance and freshness and comes through as finer-boned. It has a little lower alcohol, 14.4%. There will be around 4,000 bottles, which they expect to bottle after the 2025 winter, in May or June.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. The key difference in 2023 was the rain in early September, which changed the character of the year despite the 254 liters in total rainfall, half of the annual average, so yields were lower; but the wines, from grapes harvested until mid-October, are fresher, elegant and more fluid, yet there's a higher sense of ripeness and darker color (and aromas) in the 2023s. 2022 has turned out much better than expected. The wines have red fruit, low-ish pH and more delicacy than you'd think because of the extreme warm and dry year. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger volumes and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. But 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls textbook. I look forward to tasting them next year.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451354955944,"sku":"SPN00490174","price":158.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_8910f1d2-b743-4734-aa3b-80d298e90522.png?v=1781764351"},{"product_id":"artadi-san-lazaro-2023","title":"Artadi San Lazaro 2023","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e95-97 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe unbottled 2023 San Lázaro shows a nose of ripe berry fruit—black rather than red—with an earthy touch and a little darker in all senses than the bottled 2022 I tasted next to it. There is a faint earthiness and perhaps iron, meat or blood-like touch here. It has 14.4% alcohol and a fine-boned palate with fine-grained tannins, subdued chalky minerality, the Laguardia elegance and this plot's length. Since 2022, all of the plots include the white grapes that are planted in the vineyard together with the Tempranillo. They expect to fill some 4,000 bottles around May or June 2025.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. The key difference in 2023 was the rain in early September, which changed the character of the year despite the 254 liters in total rainfall, half of the annual average, so yields were lower; but the wines, from grapes harvested until mid-October, are fresher, elegant and more fluid, yet there's a higher sense of ripeness and darker color (and aromas) in the 2023s. 2022 has turned out much better than expected. The wines have red fruit, low-ish pH and more delicacy than you'd think because of the extreme warm and dry year. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger volumes and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. But 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls textbook. I look forward to tasting them next year.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451355021480,"sku":"SPN00490173","price":172.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_f5a01d10-dceb-433a-828a-43c6c23b491c.png?v=1781764351"},{"product_id":"artadi-la-hoya-2023","title":"Artadi La Hoya 2023","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e95 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe bottled version of the 2023 La Hoya feels quite serious and harmonious. It spent its first winter in 500- and 600-liter barrels and the second one in a 4,000-liter oak foudre. The nose is quite subtle and a little shy, with finesse. The top part of the plot is sandy, and the lower part has more silt; the combination gives the wine fruit and structure. It also has a lot of limestone and comes through as very balanced too. It's medium-bodied and really fine-boned. This is now showing much better than anticipated. 5,232 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2025. This and Carretil could be the highlights from the 2023s.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted with Carlos López de Lacalle, second generation in the winery. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger-volume containers and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. The aim is to obtain fine-boned wines with freshness, and he finds that in the wines from 2024. We tasted the bottled 2023s and unbottled samples of the 2024s, except for the 2024 white, which was already in bottle. 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. La Hoya and El Carretil could be the highlights from the 2023s. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls a textbook vintage. Like last time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, a village where the wines show more fruit, and darker fruit too; and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia, a village with finer-boned and mineral, profound wines. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eAlcohol levels are going down. The 2024s are around 14%, and in 2025, some wines have only 12.8% alcohol, though the majority are between 13% and 13.5%. But that was because of the 2025 vintage, which was a rainy year with lots of mildew and hail on the 11th of July, and for unknown reasons, the grapes stopped in September. But more about that next year...\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451355316392,"sku":"SPN00490171","price":125.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_786063b0-58c0-44a2-9a58-07c309442910.png?v=1781764347"},{"product_id":"artadi-valdegines-2023","title":"Artadi Valdegines 2023","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e94+ Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe bottled 2023 Valdeginés, which last year as a sample showed textbook characteristics of the vintage, with ripe fruit and a finer-boned palate and also a good expression of the Laguardia minerality, delivered what the sample promised. It wears the subtitle Paraje de Valparaiso, which is the zone or lieu-dit of Laguardia where the vines are located. The wine has more ripeness, like the 2023s, and it finished at 14.5% alcohol, reflecting a warmer and drier vintage, but the palate is balanced and has lots of finesse. 10,135 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2025.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted with Carlos López de Lacalle, second generation in the winery. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger-volume containers and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. The aim is to obtain fine-boned wines with freshness, and he finds that in the wines from 2024. We tasted the bottled 2023s and unbottled samples of the 2024s, except for the 2024 white, which was already in bottle. 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. La Hoya and El Carretil could be the highlights from the 2023s. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls a textbook vintage. Like last time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, a village where the wines show more fruit, and darker fruit too; and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia, a village with finer-boned and mineral, profound wines. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eAlcohol levels are going down. The 2024s are around 14%, and in 2025, some wines have only 12.8% alcohol, though the majority are between 13% and 13.5%. But that was because of the 2025 vintage, which was a rainy year with lots of mildew and hail on the 11th of July, and for unknown reasons, the grapes stopped in September. But more about that next year...\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451355381928,"sku":"SPN00490170","price":92.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_f9cb45b0-101b-4014-a9ff-a6e68a76f159.png?v=1781764348"},{"product_id":"artadi-vina-el-pison-2020","title":"Artadi Vina El Pison 2020","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e98 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eOne year ago, I tasted this as a barrel sample when it was still young and undeveloped, juicy and with plenty of baby fat. And now tasted from bottle, the 2020 Viña El Pisón has turned into a serious wine despite 2020 being a more approachable vintage with more fruit, but still has a remarkable tannic structure. It's elegant, austere and subtle, with a very long aftertaste, and the strength here is the mouthfeel. It's both powerful and ethereal, with stunning balance. They finally bottled it after the normal élevage, and the idea is to perhaps bottle it before was abandoned, as they realized what seemed like a more fragile vintage at first also benefitted from the élevage. 6,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2022.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. They have been working to understand their soils in the valley, where they have quite a lot of sand in the vineyards.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451365671080,"sku":"SPN00490117","price":441.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_2e71c8b3-0239-4acb-8c6b-3d86679d6fdf.png?v=1781764349"},{"product_id":"artadi-vina-el-pison-2023","title":"Artadi Vina El Pison 2023","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e98+ Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe bottled 2023 Viña El Pisón is aromatic and elegant, but the real difference is the depth on the palate. Carlos López de Lacalle told me that he thinks \"the 2023 wines are elegant, fluid, with engaging and fresh ripe fruit, wines that want to feel their origin.\" It pretty much encapsulates what the 2023s are about: ripe fruit and aromatic noses, with super fine palates. It has freshness and superb balance. It's still young and unevolved, but it should develop for a long time in bottle. 4,072 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2025.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted with Carlos López de Lacalle, second generation in the winery. Carlos has started to change the style of the wines in 2023 and 2024, harvesting earlier, using larger-volume containers and giving the wines a longer élevage for the micro-oxygenation part but not for the aromas or flavors. The aim is to obtain fine-boned wines with freshness, and he finds that in the wines from 2024. We tasted the bottled 2023s and unbottled samples of the 2024s, except for the 2024 white, which was already in bottle. 2023 was warm, and 2024 was cooler and with a lot of rain in September. La Hoya and El Carretil could be the highlights from the 2023s. He likes 2024 very much, which he calls a textbook vintage. Like last time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, a village where the wines show more fruit, and darker fruit too; and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia, a village with finer-boned and mineral, profound wines. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eAlcohol levels are going down. The 2024s are around 14%, and in 2025, some wines have only 12.8% alcohol, though the majority are between 13% and 13.5%. But that was because of the 2025 vintage, which was a rainy year with lots of mildew and hail on the 11th of July, and for unknown reasons, the grapes stopped in September. 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This is a blend from some 20 vineyards at various altitudes, keeping the older ones to produce a wine that has complexity and depth, the expression of Tempranillo in Laguardia and Elvillar. It is approachable and pleasant but with complexity and depth. It has ripeness and richness without excess. 70,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2022.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eI tasted the 2020s and 2021s from Artadi. 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Vineyards like Villalba, San Martín, Carralaguardia, Santa Cecilia or La Laguna, which were before bottled separately and sold to collectors directly at the winery, are now contributing to this blend, which has the ambition; and they have stopped using other vineyards, the lower ones, closer to the Ebro River, where there's more ripeness, that they sell in bulk, and in the future they might sell the grapes. The wine is ripe but elegant, which is, I think, a good definition of the Artadi style. This year feels very complete; they have gained in complexity, finesse and character. Starting in 2021, they also add 2% to 4% white Viura to all the reds. 65,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2022.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI tasted the bottled 2021s from Artadi and the 2022s from barrel. 2021 was a cooler year, in the style of 2018; and 2022 saw an extremely warm summer, but the results are much better than expected. Since 2021, they have reduced the single-vineyard bottlings of very small plots that were bottled for collectors (sold directly at the winery) and are using those grapes to improve the Viñas de Gaín, with the idea to increase the quality to reach what was before the Pagos Viejos and even discarding some of the vineyards that in the past were part of Viñas de Gaín, reducing volumes too.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe 2021s are much better than what I previewed last year. It's a fresh vintage that follows the path of 2010, with fine but ripe tannins and lighter, elegant and fine-boned wines, because, despite being a warm year, the plants didn't get stressed and the ripening was very good without very high peaks; the wines are ripe and fresh. They are in the process of moving the élevage to larger barrels, 500- and 600-liter ones starting in 2021, with the idea to replace maybe 15% of them and move all the wines to 600-liter barrels.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2022 was the warmest year in recent times, a year with stress, but the result is much better than expected, with lower alcohol, less structure and lower pH. Carlos López de Lacalle reckons the plants got blocked and there was no ripening, or if anything, there was a phenological stop that generated less tannins and sugar. For them, it is a unique year that takes them back to the 1990s, with less alcohol, less structure and more ethereal wines! All the 2022s I tasted were already in stainless steel to be bottled a little earlier, around March\/April. They are changing, and the end of the élevage is going to be in foudre, so 600-liter barrels until malolactic is over in the spring and then foudre (now in stainless steel) for almost one year. In 2022, El Pisón and La Hoya already saw that treatment, and it was introduced to the other wines starting in 2023, slowly, as they have to buy new foudres of their size, one foudre for each of the single-vineyard wines.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThey have done soil studies and found great geological diversity that has helped them to better understand their terroir. The vinification was similar for all wines, fermentation in open stainless steel tanks after a cold maceration of 24 to 48 hours and 10 to 12 days with two daily treadings and a short pump-over followed by malolactic in barrel and aging in demi-muid for nine months. Alcohol levers are around 14.5%, which defined the style of the wines, ripe without excess with balance and good freshness.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wine Clique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451457355944,"sku":"SPN00490165","price":140.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/3316\/6248\/files\/BC_Upload_8a0ec181-6d13-435c-a6ad-ecd6933c8f16.png?v=1781764349"},{"product_id":"artadi-vinas-de-gain-tinto-2022","title":"Artadi Vinas de Gain Tinto 2022","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e93 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe entry-level red 2022 Viñas de Gaín Tinto comes from a dry and very warm year when they started picking on September 15. As in previous years, it contains a small percentage of white grapes, 2% to 4% Viura. It fermented in stainless steel and matured in 225-, 500- and 600-liter barrels for one winter (about 10 months) and a further year in stainless steel and oak foudre. Tasted next to the 2023, this looks paler and more delicate. It is medium-bodied, fine-grained and tasty. 45,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2023. Starting this year, the plots that used to be bottled separately as a collector's range now go to Viñas de Gaín, which wants to be the new Pagos Viejos.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. 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It fermented in stainless steel and matured in 225-, 500- and 600-liter barrels for one winter (about 10 months) and a further year in stainless steel and oak foudre. Tasted next to the 2023, this looks paler and more delicate. It is medium-bodied, fine-grained and tasty. 45,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2023. Starting this year, the plots that used to be bottled separately as a collector's range now go to Viñas de Gaín, which wants to be the new Pagos Viejos.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtadi still sells their wines without the Rioja appellation of origin, but they are still located in the heart of Rioja. So, their wines appear in this article like always, because I include wines from the region whether or not they carry the appellation of origin on their labels. They keep working their 56 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Laguardia and El Villar to produce between 100,000 and 120,000 bottles. Their cellar has changed when it comes to the containers where they age their wines, as they no longer have any 225-liter barrels and instead have 120 600-liter demi-muids, 30 500-liter demi-muids and four oak vats ranging between 3,000 and 5,000 liters. Everything has been certified organic since 2016, even though they started working organically in 2007.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eThis time, we tasted by village: La Hoya, Quintanilla and La Poza de Ballesteros are in Elvillar, and Valdeginés, San Lázaro, El Carretil and El Pisón are in Laguardia. The wines from Laguardia tend to have more elegance, while Elvillar has more ripeness. I tasted the bottled 2022s and unbottled samples of the 2023s. Both years were warm and dry. 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