Artadi Viñas de Gain 2016 Magnum
Descripción
Tinto nacido en viñedos seleccionados de entre 20 y 30 años situados en parcelas de los parajes de San Martín, Las Ventas, Paulejas, San Julián, Santa Águeda, Castejones, Majadales y Ribaltayo Viejo entre otros. Un vino para poder disfrutar de la expresión más juvenil de cada añada o para redescubrir más adelante gracias a su capacidad de guarda. Sobrio, serio y accesible, destaca en él el perfil elegante de las frutas frojas y la sensación táctil de sus taninos.
Se presenta en formato de 1.5 litros.
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Viñedo y elaboración
Opinión de los críticos
The very young 2016 Viñas de Gaín needed a little bit of air to open up, so perhaps decanting it in advance is not a bad idea. It blends Tempranillo grapes from a number of vineyards in Laguardia and Elvillar, usually with grapes selected from younger vines, and it's produced in a similar way as the single-vineyard bottlings, meaning fermentation in open-top wooden vats with indigenous yeasts and aging in barrique until malolactic is completed. 2016 is a lighter year, with less tannic structure but more approachable and easy to drink young, a characteristic that is pretty obvious in this cuvée, with red rather than black fruit, with more tension and freshness. This is the most vibrant vintage I remember from this bottling. This is the first year that carries the organic-agriculture seal, even though they abandoned herbicides and systemic products in 2002 and have been working their vineyards organically since around 2008. It's approachable now, but it should develop nicely in bottle for a few years. 120,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2018.
This has the typical ripe-blueberry nose of Rioja, but is finer than the majority of young reds from this region. Makes you think of freshly crushed berries. The supple tannins are beautifully integrated and the finish is energetic. Drink or hold.
Artadi es una de las grandes bodegas de España. En 1986 un grupo de viticultores de la Rioja Alavesa al frente del cual estaba Juan Carlos López de Lacalle decidieron unir sus fuerzas.
