Arizcuren Valdetrillo 2018
Descripción
Valdetrillo es un viñedo sin injertar, de edad indeterminada, que muestra las cicatrices del devenir de la viticultura en Rioja en el siglo XX, cuando los animales dejaron paso a los tractores en los viñedos y se arrancaron el 50% de las cepas. Tras todos estos cambios hay parajes que permanecen, y este es uno de ellos, gracias al cual se obtiene un vino de producción muy limitada que se muestra embriagador en cata, con una nariz hipnótica y un paladar delicioso y complejo a partes iguales.
Ficha técnica
Cata
Viñedo y elaboración
Opinión de los críticos
The 2018 Valdetrillo is a new Garnacha (with 3% Malvasía Riojana) from a plot in a zone of the village of Quel that gives the wine its name. The vineyard is on sandy soils at 800 meters in altitude, and the plants are ancient (nobody knows how old) and ungrafted. This is a rich, ripe and heady southern Garnacha with a touch of Mediterranean herbs, cherries in liqueur and something earthy/telluric. The nose is hypnotic and makes you go back to the glass over and over. The palate is luscious and reveals pungent flavors that are complex and ever-changing. This has 15% alcohol and matured in used oak barrels for 20 months. Very showy and impressive. There are 765 bottles and 100 magnums.
"It's a museum," says Javier Arizcuren of this ancient, 19th century parcel of 1.36 hectares at 762 metres. Combining Garnacha with 4% Malvasía and other bits and pieces, Valdetrillo is a classic high-altitude, old-vine red, with effortless concentration, notes of wild mountain herbs, meaty blackberry and blueberry fruit, granular tannins and wonderful minerality and palate length. 2023-31
A lively, fresher style of Rioja with crushed berries, hints of cement and some lemon zest. It’s medium-bodied with fine tannins and a vivid finish. Drink or hold.
Garnacha de altura,maravillosa nariz,notas de monte mediterráneo, roble integrado,y tinaja de barro,final vibrante,taninos deliciosos.3,75☆