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Artazu Pasos de San Martin 2018
Artazu Pasos de San Martin 2018

Artazu Pasos de San Martin 2018

$63.00

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93 Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez

The 2018 Pasos de San Martín is the wine produced with Garnacha from the cooler zone of San Martín de Unx in Navarra where they have 11 hectares of 40-year-old vines on a southeast exposure where the soils are rich in limestone and silt. As has been the case in the last few years with Artadi's reds, it had a short élevage of only nine months in 500-liter French oak barrels, including malolactic. The climate and soils are quite similar to Rioja, maybe a bit more extreme here, cooler in cool vintages, warmer in warm years, so this 2018 shows a little like the range from Rioja, elegant and with more freshness. It's quite pure, clean and with very fine tannins. 18,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2021. They skipped the 2017 vintage of this wine.

The López de la Calle family described 2018 in Navarra as a year with a long winter marked by the snowfall of the 28th of February that ensured a good water reserve throughout the whole cycle. It rained a lot during spring, 200 liters in March, April and May, and that caused some fungal disease that reduced yields in some zones but without affecting the foliar mass, so ripening was perfect and without botrytis. They could wait for the optimal harvesting dates with very healthy grapes. Similar to Rioja, 2019 was a low-yielding year marked by some hailstorms.

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