Artadi Valdegines Alava, Spain 2023 Amyndaio with notes of orange blossom

with notes of orange blossom

All varietal from a site just next to Bella Oaks

ripe lime and papaya

A more vibrant and fruitier expression of Ardanza this year with strawberries

Artadi Valdegines Alava, Spain 2023 Amyndaio with notes of orange blossomI tasted an unbottled sample of the 2023 Valdegins from vines planted between 1982 and 1989, part on a slope on soft sandstone and part in a terrace with deeper and cooler soils. Malolactic and aging were in 600 liter barrels, and the wine spent the second winter in oak foudres. This is a textbook example of the 2023s here, with a riper nose but a finer boned palate and lower alcohol than in 2022 and with the elegance and minerality of Laguardia. 97