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Artazu Santa Cruz de Artazu 2020
Artazu Santa Cruz de Artazu 2020

Artazu Santa Cruz de Artazu 2020

$85.00

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93+ Points | The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez

The red 2020 Santa Cruz de Artazu is a Garnacha from ancient small plots on the slopes of Artazu, mostly around the Santa Cruz Hermit. It was produced very much in the Artadi way for reds, with fermentation in open vat and nine months in barrel, 500-liter ones here. It has 14.65% alcohol and very good freshness and acidity, which translate into a balanced and tasty varietal red. It's clean, aromatic, open and expressive, with lots of fruit. The palate is juicy and round, with abundant, fine-grained tannins. 4,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2022.

Artazu is the Navarra project from the Artadi family from Rioja. I tasted their range as part of the Artadi group portfolio at the beginning of the year, and I'm including those notes here again for context and completeness of this regional article. As with the wines from Rioja, all the Navarra wines are now certified organic. In my discussion with Carlos López de la Calle soon after the 2022 harvest, he mentioned that in 2022 there were a lot of wildfires that affected the aromatics of the 2022 wines. 2019 was a very good vintage for them.

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