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Artazu (Artadi)

2023 Artazu (Artadi), Santa Cruz de Artazu Tinto, Navarra

Spain Garnacha Navarra 750ML
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2023 Artazu (Artadi), Santa Cruz de Artazu Tinto, Navarra
Artazu (Artadi)

2023 Artazu (Artadi), Santa Cruz de Artazu Tinto, Navarra

Spain Garnacha Navarra 750ML
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THE VINEYARD Sakanandia, Txangola, Santa Cruz, Korteta, La Plana and Basakaitz , all within Artazu (Navarra). Organically farmed, with an average yield of 2500 kg/ha.

ASSEMBLAGE 100% Garnacha

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

VINE AGE Between 80-100 years old

VINIFICATION Fermented in open-top vats with a 24-48 hour cold maceration, then preserving the skins for the duration of fermentation (10-12 days). Once-daily pump-over done to keep cap moist & moderate temperature. No press juice is utilized.

AGING Racked into 500L French & Austrian oak barrels, 2-5 years of age. The wine will stay 12 months in barrel, and another 7 months in bottle prior to release.

BOTTLES PRODUCED 6919 bottles & 52 magnums

95, RP - "The village red from Artazu is the 2023 Santa Cruz de Artazu was produced with grapes from small plots of old head-pruned and dry-farmed vines on silt and limestone soils that provide finesse. It has notes of red fruit and flowers, aromatic herbs and perfectly integrated oak after it matured in well-seasoned 600-liter barrels for eight months. It's harmonious, elegant and fine-boned, with elegant tannins and great balance. It's approachable now because of its harmonious profile but has the stuffing and balance between its components to age nicely in bottle. "

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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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