Artadi | Rioja | El Carretil | 2018 | 750ml | bio

Beschreibung

Product description for Artadi El Carretil 2018 (bio)

The history of Artadi goes back to a cooperative project. In 1985, several producers joined forces because they believed that top-quality wines could be produced in the region without extremely long barrel aging. Under the leadership of Juan Carlos López de Lacalle, they succeeded in refining this process over the decades and achieving considerable success. In 2016, the decision was made to withdraw from the DOCa Rioja because their philosophy had become too different from that of the rest of the appellation. Even today, Artadi does not produce Reserva or Gran Reserva wines. However, they do use a subtle amount of wood, without masking the terroir. Like El Pisón, El Carretil is an amphitheater site at an altitude of around 500 meters and rotates from east to south to west. The site is characterized by somewhat lighter, limestone soils with plenty of sand – soils for the finest wines. Both are extreme sites with extreme subsoils: El Pisón has more clay, more profound power, El Carretil more finesse and elegance. The vines are well over 70 years old. All are biodynamically cultivated and have been bottled as single-vineyard wines for many years.

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Wine Advocate

Score: 97+

The bottled 2018 El Carretil was phenomenal. It comes from a plot of 3.64 hectares planted at three different times—1930, 1975 and 1988—on limestone, sandstone and silt soils with up to 18% active limestone. Its Tempranillo grapes aged in barrel and then were racked back to stainless steel, where it was left to mature until it was bottled. It’s mineral and balsamic, expressive, open and fresh, with beautiful elegance. It’s classical with even a Bordeaux twist. It shows pretty much like the sample I tasted 12 months ago, expressive and open, aromatic and perfumed, with great freshness and balance, vibrant and energetic, juicy with fine-grained tannins and with terrific balance and purity. 5,000 bottles were filled in June 2020.
Luis Gutiérrez

Producer website: https://artadi.com/en/artazu-navarra