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Artazu (Artadi)

2021 Artazu (Artadi), Santa Cruz de Artazu Blanco, Navarra

Spain Garnacha Blanca Navarra 750ML
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2021 Artazu (Artadi), Santa Cruz de Artazu Blanco, Navarra
Artazu (Artadi)

2021 Artazu (Artadi), Santa Cruz de Artazu Blanco, Navarra

Spain Garnacha Blanca Navarra 750ML
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THE VINEYARD Unea, La Plana and Santa Cruz , within Artazu (Navarra). Farmed organically, with an average yield of 2700 kg/ha.

ASSEMBLAGE 100% Garnacha Blanca

SOIL Poor soils composed of silt and calcareous sands, with low organic matter and good drainage.

VINE AGE Planted in 2005 & 2006

VINIFICATION Using the free-run juice, fermented in stainless steel tanks & 500L barrels - no skin maceration, and no malo-lactic conversion.

AGING Aged in stainless steel on the lees for one year, prior to another 2 years in bottle prior to release.

BOTTLES PRODUCED 3607 bottles and 20 magnums

94, RP - "The village white 2021 Santa Cruz de Artazu Blanco was produced with Garnacha Blanca, a variety that was almost lost. They have two certified organic vineyards. The wine fermented 50/50 in stainless steel and 500-liter French oak barrels, and it had a slow aging of two years and seven months with lees. It has a bright yellow color and an expressive, elegant and nuanced nose of white fruit, flowers, yeasts and nuts, subtle and elegant, with a sense of harmony and delicacy. It has 13% alcohol and a pH of 3.35, denoting medium ripeness and very good freshness, and it's supple, with a long, clean, dry, chalky and precise finish. "

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Borne of eternal curiosity, Artazu is the Navarra wine wing of Artadi. Comprised of vineyards that, were it not for their incredible slope, would have been ripped out during one of the Spanish wars to make way for cereal farming, Artazu's old vines today generate an incredibly aromatic, velvety selection of wines, based on Garnacha Blanco & Tinto.

Artazu (Artadi)

►Garrett’s Blog from our visit to Artadi

In the 1980s, Juan Carlos de la Calle of famed (then) Rioja house Artadi met the American winemaker Randall Graham, which would be a fortuitous meeting in the winery’s direction. When Randall came to visit Laguardia, he pleaded with Juan Carlos to plant Garnacha. Instead, Juan Carlos rented - and later purchased - two co-ops in the Navarra village of Artazu. Though the joint production with Graham ended in 2000, Juan Carlos held on to the prized Santa Cruz vineyard, the wines from which today are hailed as the preeminent Navarra Garnacha. “When crisis came in the 1970s to Spain, and many of the vineyards were ripped out for crops,” Carlos adds, “The Artazu vineyards were so steep that they would not be able to grow crops efficiently. So, we have post-phylloxera vines from the thirties and forties - bush vines, small bunches, capable of incredible complexity and depth.”

While their father may have seen the future, today the children reap the rewards of his labor (and now their own). “In the nineties,” Carlos says in reference to another Navarra plot, Pazos de San Martin, “They couldn’t get the [Garnacha] grape to ripen, so they made rosé. It has become much more profound, but is very floral - lavender - and when I drink it I think of Fixin, which is sometimes more pleasurable than, say, Vosne-Romanee.”

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Artazu (Artadi)

Borne of eternal curiosity, Artazu is the Navarra wine wing of Artadi. Comprised of vineyards that, were it not for their incredible slope, would have been ripped out during one of the Spanish wars to make way for cereal farming, Artazu's old vines today generate an incredibly aromatic, velvety selection of wines, based on Garnacha Blanco & Tinto.

►Garrett’s Blog from our visit to Artadi

In the 1980s, Juan Carlos de la Calle of famed (then) Rioja house Artadi met the American winemaker Randall Graham, which would be a fortuitous meeting in the winery’s direction. When Randall came to visit Laguardia, he pleaded with Juan Carlos to plant Garnacha. Instead, Juan Carlos rented - and later purchased - two co-ops in the Navarra village of Artazu. Though the joint production with Graham ended in 2000, Juan Carlos held on to the prized Santa Cruz vineyard, the wines from which today are hailed as the preeminent Navarra Garnacha. “When crisis came in the 1970s to Spain, and many of the vineyards were ripped out for crops,” Carlos adds, “The Artazu vineyards were so steep that they would not be able to grow crops efficiently. So, we have post-phylloxera vines from the thirties and forties - bush vines, small bunches, capable of incredible complexity and depth.”

While their father may have seen the future, today the children reap the rewards of his labor (and now their own). “In the nineties,” Carlos says in reference to another Navarra plot, Pazos de San Martin, “They couldn’t get the [Garnacha] grape to ripen, so they made rosé. It has become much more profound, but is very floral - lavender - and when I drink it I think of Fixin, which is sometimes more pleasurable than, say, Vosne-Romanee.”

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