Artuke 2022

CATA's notes:

• Color: Cherry red with violet edging medium layer.
• Nose: Very cool and alive with aromas of fruit so much black as red (blackberries, currants, strawberries, raspberries) and light touches floral of Violets.
• Mouth: Tasty, with very good acidity that makes it super fresh, lots of fruit and hints of violet caramel.

Production and Aging:

95% Tempranillo and 5% Viura.

The Red Artuke is made according to the traditional method of carbonic maceration, typical and historical of the Rioja Alavesa, mainly. It consists of fermenting the whole grape, without destemming, preserving the vegetable part of the clusters. The clusters are placed in fermentation tanks filled to the maximum to limit contact with oxygen and fermentation begins intracellularly, that is, within each grain, obtaining wines with a lot of color, very fresh and fruity and with a graduation moderate alcoholic. Subsequently, the wine rests between 3 and 6 months in cement tanks, a material that further accentuates the primary character of the wine.

Curiosities:

All the fruit comes from different vineyard plots but all of them belong to the same municipality, Baños de Ebro. Thus, the wine transmits all the particular character of a town, as if it were a French vin de village. The plots are located at altitudes ranging between 420 and 480 meters. Its clay-calcareous soils in combination with the continental climate of Baños de Ebro offer the perfect setting for the vines to develop and mature slowly and fully. essential condition to obtain great wines. Some of them were planted in 1902 and others, later, from 2000.