Artuke | Rioja | El Escolladero | 2023 | 750ml | bio

Description

Product description for Artuke El Escolladero 2023 (bio)

Artuke El Escolladero 2023 is a dry red wine made from a Tempranillo blend in the Rioja region of Spain.

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Wine Advocate

Score: 96

The 2023 El Escolladero, like its siblings, carries lieu-dit information on its label. It’s from the lieu-dit of El Meadero (which doesn’t sound that nice in Spanish), a 0.95-hectare plot on clay and limestone soils in the village of Ábalos that was planted in 1950 at 660 meters above sea level. It’s a little backward and with the seriousness that I noticed in all the 2023s. It’s 80% Tempranillo and 20% Graciano (all the wines seem to have more Graciano this year) that ripened to 14.1% alcohol but keeping a pH of 3.42, delivering a powerful and elegant wine. It’s juicy, round and young, with abundant, very chalky tannins. The destemmed but uncrushed grapes fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured in 600-liter oak foudres for 12 months. 1,300 bottles were filled in December 2024.
Luis Gutiérrez

Vinous

Score: 96

The 2023 El Escolladero is a blend of 85% Tempranillo and 15% Graciano from Paraje El Meadero in Ábalos, Rioja, where the Miguel Blanco family owns the vineyard. Intensely aromatic, it opens with violet, lavender, pink grapefruit and dark fruit against a primary fruit backdrop. This is juicy and full-bodied, with a fine, chalky texture and notable depth. It is a long-lasting and expressive 2023 in the producer’s hallmark style—voluminous yet weightless, with a layered fruit profile and agile flow.
— Joaquín Hidalgo
Drinking window: 2025 – 2045
Review date: May 2025

Producer website: https://www.artuke.com/