Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2019

La Poza de Ballesteros is a wine produced by Bodegas y Viñedos Artadi de Laguardia. Made with Tempranillo grapes from the vineyard that gives the wine its name, located on a gentle slope with clay-limestone soils, poor and strong. The harvest is respectful, with the absence of pesticides and herbicides. Organic viticulture. Vinification begins in open tanks with cold maceration that lasts between 24 and 48 hours. Fermentation lasts between 10 and 12 days with daily treading and a little pumping over, to give way to malolactic aging in barrels, and aging for 9 months in French oak barrels. Strong but round wine, elegant, tasty.

Bodegas y Viñedos Artadi began its journey in 1985, in Laguardia, Álava, as a group of viticulturists with deep-rooted customs and a common view of the vineyard and the wines. In 1992, both the Lacalle and Laorden families took over the reins and started what is now Artadi, shortly after expanding the extension of the vineyard in Navarra, Alicante and Guipúzcoa. Its premise is (and has always been) to recover that good work of its grandparents, based on respect for the terroir and the vineyard, currently producing organically.