Winemaker Notes
The Grapes for ‘Artuke’ come from several plots in the same village of Baños de Ebro. In this way they can transmit a village character to the wine, characterized by the specific continental climate and its chalky clay soils.
Blend: 95% Tempranillo, 5% Viura
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The incredibly priced 2016 Artuke is a village blend from Baños de Ebro, mostly Tempranillo but with 5% Viura fermented with carbonic maceration, neutral yeasts and kept in concrete until bottling. It has freshness, an herbal twist and a very tasty palate with some fine-grained tannins. It's clean, fresh and very pleasant, a real bargain. 70,000 bottles produced and bottled in six lots.
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.