Artuke La Condenada Rioja Single Bottle

Country: Spain Region: Rioja

Varietal: 80% Tempranillo, Garnacha, Palomino Fino 

Vintage: 2021 Colour: Red Style: Dry

Producer: Artuke

*** Tim Atkin - Overall Red Wine of the Year 2023 - Rioja Report Released Feb 8th 2023 - Limited to 1 bottle per person ***

Artuke La Condenada  is a red wine produced by  Bodegas y Viñedos Artuke  in Baños de Ebro (Rioja Alavesa),  DO Ca. Rioja . It is a wine made with Tempranillo, Red Garnacha, Graciano and Palomino , from an old vineyard, planted in 1920 on sandy soils with a sandstone subsoil, at an altitude of 520 meters.

The harvest is manual in boxes of 20 kg. Once in the winery, it goes through the selection table and is destemmed and selected by hand, bean by bean. It is vatted by gravity in a small 2,000-liter tank, where it ferments and is punched down daily. Malolactic fermentation is carried out in 500-litre French oak barrels. Aging is in 600-liter French oak foudres for 14 months. The wine is bottled after a gentle filtering and without stabilizing.