Artadi Pagos Viejos 2008

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Winery:

Artadi

Varietal:

Tempranillo

Region:

Spain > Rioja

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Color:

Red

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What to Expect

The Rioja region of Spain produces one of the world's finest, and most long lived wines: Rioja. Rioja's renaissance, in the latter half of the 19th century, was a direct result of the phyloxera bug that decimated vineyards around the globe. While English merchants came to Rioja to replace their French imports, the wines here actually have much more in common with Chianti. Both wines are blend relying heavily on one grape, in this case Tempranillo. Like Chianti's Sangiovese, Tempranillo usually produces a relatively high acid wine of medium to medium-full body. Tempranillo tends to produce wines with a dusty, leathery edge to its raspberry and blackberry fruit tones. With additions of Graciano, Mazuela and Grancha, the wines of Rioja can take on additional layers of flavor and aroma, but the tradition of extended oak aging for Rioja's great wines contributes to an even more obvious imprint. While the Spaniards have traditionally been fans of the strong vanilla and coconut components that American oak barrels have contributed to Rioja, more and more producers have turned to French oak favoring its more subtle spice tones. Rioja continues to undergo extended aging in barrel with Reserva and Gran Reserva bottlings, representing a producer's highest achievement, spending a minimum of 3 of 5 years respectively in the producer's cellar.

Winemakers Notes

Eponymous old vines, some approaching their half century, punctuate the gentlelimestone hillsides of Rioja Alavesa. The quality of the Tempranillo grapes ishigh beyond dispute, but they are still treated to the rigours of six sortingtables in the quest for perfection, an on-going process as they are currentlymid-way through their ageing in new Allier barriques. The old vine parcels forthe 2008 were tasted separately, in Laguardia, by the BBR buyers and we madeour own blends and then compared them , with a sense of wonder, to JuanCarlos' vastly superior assemblage.

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