Artadi Pagos Viejos 2007

Tempranillo from Rioja, Spain

95 Robert
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Product Details

Varietal

Tempranillo

Region

Rioja, Spain

Producer

Artadi

Vintage

2007

Size

750ML

ABV

14%

Features

Collectible

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Winemaker Notes

An experience to be enjoyed on special occasions, this wine has an intense burgundy color and is both profound and vivacious. Aromas of red and black fruit, black currants and Bing cherries fill the nose while ripe forest fruit, exotic perfume, soft wood, cloves, mint, chocolate and tobacco fill the palate. Ample in the mouth with fine, round tannins, the wine is fresh and long in the palate as befits a great, cool vintage.

Professional Ratings

95 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2007 Pagos Viejos is sourced from Artadi’s three best and most elevated vineyard sites, all planted to Tempranillo over 75 years of age. The wine was aged for 18 months in new French oak. It sports a superb aromatic array of toasty new oak, pencil lead, violets, incense, black cherry, and blueberry. Elegant, ripe, and velvety on the palate, it has superb depth and concentration, savory flavors, a firm structure, and a 45-second finish. Give it 6-8 years of additional bottle age and drink it from 2016 to 2032.

Other Vintages

2009

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2006

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2005

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2004

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2001

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2000

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1999

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1998

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1997

88 Wine
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1996

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1995

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1994

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Artadi

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The Artadi estate was created in 1985 by the dynamic visionary winemaker, Juan Carlos Lopez de la Calle. His objective was to seek and nurture the concept that Tempranillo, when cultivated at high altitude, low-cropped, and from old vines, produces extraordinarily rich and profound wines. This, coupled with specific barrel treatments (with minor American oak influences) produces some of Rioja’s best wines.

Artadi is about purity of extracted fruit with almost Burgundian textures. In fact, critics have often compared these wines to the top wines of Chambolle-Musigny and other top appellations of Burgundy. The key to this level of elegance comes from the cold wines of the Pyrenees which blow from the north. This coupled with moderate temperatures tend to make these wines a study in elegance and power, the iron fist in a velvet glove if you will. They are some of the most extraordinary examples of Tempranillo in the world.

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Rioja Tempranillo

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Hailed as the star red variety in Spain’s most celebrated wine region, Tempranillo from Rioja, or simply labeled, “Rioja,” produces elegant wines with complex notes of red and black fruit, crushed rock, leather, toast and tobacco, whose best examples are fully capable of decades of improvement in the cellar.

Rioja wines are typically a blend of fruit from its three sub-regions: Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental, although specific sub-region (zonas), village (municipios) and vineyard (viñedo singular) wines can now be labeled. Rioja Alta and Alavesa, at the highest elevations, are considered to be the source of the brightest, most elegant fruit, while grapes from the warmer and drier, Rioja Oriental, produce wines with deep color, great body and richness.

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