2013 Valdegines
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Brilliant ruby-red. Lively and incisive on the pungent nose, displaying intense cherry pit, red currant and spicecake scents along with suggestions of vanilla and succulent herbs. Juicy, focused and spicy on the palate, offering bitter cherry, allspice, vanilla and licorice flavors that deepen and unfold very slowly with air. Shows impressive clarity and minerally cut on a long, taut finish shaped by youthfully firm tannins.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
Josh Raynolds
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The valley of Ginés names the 2013 Valdeginés, a single plot of Tempranillo vines from a cold terroir (the sun leaves at mid-day) in a cold vintage. This is an austere red, serious, quite different from previous vintages. There was some 630 liters of rain in the growing season and the vintage was challenging, but has often resulted in less ripe wines with more freshness. The tannins are a little more severe than the 2014, a wine that should age nicely in bottle, with the freshness of the cold years. Spicy, cold, austere and long. The wood is remarkably well integrated. This is a very good showing for Valdeginés; it really impressed me. 10,000 bottles.
About the producer
Owner and winemaker Juan Carlos López de Lacalle is among an elite group of global vintners whose expertise creates wines that stand above others in their regions. Artadi produces refined Rioja in unoaked and oaked styles, including superb Reservas and single-vineyard wines such as Viña El Pisón.