2023 Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros Top 10 The wines of Les Vaucrains

The wines of Les Vaucrains are however more brooding and muscular in style (though certainly not lacking in elegance and finesse)

With notes of raspberry and cassis and a pop of acidity

this is old-school Rhone Syrah at its finest

Its all-mistelle base is of Vermentinu and Muscat Petit Grains

wild yeast

2023 Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros Top 10 The wines of Les VaucrainsFewer than 350 cases made. The 2023 Artadi "La Poza de Ballesteros" is certified organic Tempranillo from a 3. 6 hectare west facing plot in Elvillar de lava, planted in 1960 on poor, pebbly soils with white limestone formations over dense silty clay the west exposure and deeper soils giving this wine its characteristic richness and volume, always the fuller bodied counterpoint to the east facing Valdegins across the ridge. Harvested earlier in 2023