Score: 96

"The 2020 Tartalo is a new single-vineyard red from a plot with a field blend, 0.7 hectares planted in 1920 in the village of Elvillar (Rioja Alavesa) at 600 meters in altitude in the zone known as Barranco de San Julián on limestone soils that deliver no more than 3,000 kilos per hectare. This is the most calcareous vineyard he works. It's mostly Tempranillo with 8% Viura and some scattered plants of Graciano that fermented with indigenous yeasts in a 1,000-liter oak vat and matured in one single used 600-liter Austrian barrel. It's super floral and perfumed. Oxer thinks it's earthy and connected to the soil, but the wine has no rusticity whatsoever. There are notes of aromatic herbs, wild berries and flowers, and there is amazing balance. The wines are always vinified in a very gentle way, like an infusion; he tries not to extract, and the oaking is also very subtle. He has worked a lot to find the barrels that respect the character of e

January 44743

Score: 96

"The 2020 Tartalo is a new single-vineyard red from a plot with a field blend, 0.7 hectares planted in 1920 in the village of Elvillar (Rioja Alavesa) at 600 meters in altitude in the zone known as Barranco de San Julián on limestone soils that deliver no more than 3,000 kilos per hectare. This is the most calcareous vineyard he works. It's mostly Tempranillo with 8% Viura and some scattered plants of Graciano that fermented with indigenous yeasts in a 1,000-liter oak vat and matured in one single used 600-liter Austrian barrel. It's super floral and perfumed. Oxer thinks it's earthy and connected to the soil, but the wine has no rusticity whatsoever. There are notes of aromatic herbs, wild berries and flowers, and there is amazing balance. The wines are always vinified in a very gentle way, like an infusion; he tries not to extract, and the oaking is also very subtle. He has worked a lot to find the barrels that respect the charact

July 2022