Artadi, Vinas Gain, Rioja

Decanted 1 hour. Upon decanting rich pleasurable purple hue. Fragrant aroma of purple flowers. Initial pour shows balanced legs, big clean cherry nose. Flavor of figs, big heavy cherries w/exceptional finish. Excellent with Paella

2019 vintage

Needs half hour decant to open up. Dark fruit, moderate tannins.

2019 vintage

Beautiful purple almost Burgundian. Compelling aromas with saddle leather and mixed berries. Pure and really clean entry, zippy acids add great balance to the blue and black fruits. Long and even finish with a little kick. Outstanding especially for $25.

2019 vintage

2 months ago I left it too long for airing & it deteriorated. This time... I avoided this mistake. Nice wine, but definitely not my cup of tea🥺 Nice color, bright dark ruby red with shades of purple👍 Medium tobody. High acidity. Well felt tanines. OK structure but I prefer smoother and more balanced wines🥺 Mildly plus aromatic. Barrels, red and black fruits, spices, terroir. On the palate, mainly plum, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, pepper, licorice, vanilla, oak, leather, stone. Nice …

2019 vintage

Full body, deep purply colour, 14% abv. Elegant aroma of black and blue fruits, liquorice and herbal notes. On the palate predominantly blackberry, wild berries' acidity, silky tannins and rounding finish of good length. Rich and bold, complex enough and balanced wine. Food friendly, well pairing to spicy eggplant stew. Open two hours ahead. Serve 16ºC - 20ºC. Drink now while young and the next six years.

2019 vintage

Excellent qpr. I think this just needs a bit of time - basic elements are there and in balance - depth of fruit, acidity, also slight herbiness.

2019 vintage

Deep purple color. Blackberry, black raspberry, vanilla, char, toast, black plum, lavender, violet, fresh soil, dusty road, black licorice, menthol, baking spice, walnut. Tannin: M+, fine-grained. Acid: M+. 12 months in oak, but not stated if any is new oak. Leaning a little to the fresh / jammy side, but still nice.

2019 vintage

Very light an drinkable for a temperinllo. Medium plus body, red fruits, light tannins. Light an dpleasant spiciness youd expect from a Spanish red when paired with meats seasoned with black pepper. Had ours with a juicy ribeye and it was a great pairing.

2019 vintage

Rioja (K&L Wine Merchant - San Francisco) : N: A really gentle neon berry note (very nice, it’s not turned up to 1000% like you would usually get from a varietal in the new world). Small, concentrated strawberries with a dark ripeness and earthiness. P: Autumn leaves, lighter cranberry skins, minerals on the tail end. A bit flat and simple for me. Loved the aromas, though.

2019 vintage

Joven aún. Taninos no resueltos. Mejora con comida. Clásico viñas de gain. Young, unsolved Tanins. Drink or hold 2 yrs.

2019 vintage

Black cherry, oak, leather. Varietal correct but simple. For the price just an all around good wine.

2019 vintage

During a Walkabout tasting of Denz wines, only brief impressions. Correct but simple.

2019 vintage

Fresh and clean but lacking anything special. Felt alot better after 1h of air. Not my cup of tea but no faults either.

2003 vintage

Tasted at Oinoscent during service, courtesy of a customer The wine is very fresh, ripe blue fruit, berries, floral notes, violet, nice oak frame, welcoming. Palate very smooth (for its age), medium to full body, herbal bitterness, medium tannins, medium to high acidity, alcohol heat, medium finish

2019 vintage

Singing and dancing, this has evolved into a marvelous old Rioja. Sorry to see the last bottle of this disappear from the cellar. What a magnificent bargain at $18 from Premier Cru back in the day.

2003 vintage

Decanted for about an hour. Dark red colored, slight amount of light browning on the edges, otherwise looks relatively young. In contrast to some other tasting notes, the nose was fairly muted, I picked up some faint red fruits and that was about it. Much more powerful on the palate, lots of black cherry, red currant, cedar, pipe tobacco, and spice. The palate has a nice level of intensity and juiciness with plenty of acidity, but it’s still pretty tannic. …

2003 vintage

Cork was a bit tight, but got it out eventually. Fill is perfect; bought this on release, and it has been stored professionally since then. Color is a beautiful ruby garnet with a bit of amber at the edges. Apparently this is 100% old vine Tempranillo. This really has a delicious fragrance that is deep and complex; aromatics of raspberries, baking spices, sweet fragrant leather and green tobacco, crushed dried flowers, hint of cassis, warm loam and crushed rocks all …

2003 vintage

Solid Rioja after decanting for one hour (PnP is weak and acidic) as it builds body and fruit to handle its sizable acidity. Nothing special or memorable, but for $20...

2003 vintage

Very good bottle. Smoky, oaky, cocoa; Broad palate, with chocolate, dark cherry, and cola. Outstanding depth and considerable structure. At a great place right now.

2003 vintage

Somewhat weak bottle, with fruit and acidity a bit soft and tannins a little large. Still a nice wine, but this example fell short of excellence.

2003 vintage

Hazy notes from last week. I tasted a bottle about 8 years ago, and it was extremely tight and tannic. I'm glad I waited. This was more powerful than I had remembered, with considerable concentration and depth, with mainly red fruit flavours and no American oak flavours. Quite a modern style of Rioja, but quite tasty at the moment; there are still tannins, which increased with air, but it is finally getting ready to drink. It still has time to …

2003 vintage

On a multi-night Thanksgiving where I opened hit after hit of great QPR wines, this one stole the show. I was shocked that a <$20 Rioja from the 2003 vintage would still be so exuberant and fresh. There was a slight funk when first opened, but that quickly blew off. And the bottle continued to evolve over the course of several hours. And never felt tired. The fact that this is a 2003 that has no signs of heat or …

2003 vintage

At a great place at 13 years old for an entry level of a hot, ultra ripe vintage. Artadi knows their craft.

2003 vintage

Blood red. Cigar box, smokey minerals on the nose, this has nice fruit , crisp acidity and plentiful complexity, with a pleasant touch of earthiness on the long finish . Lots to like for the price.

2003 vintage

A very nice red-berry delicate wine with a good acidity and fine-grained tannin, light notes of spice and oak, main tone of dried cherry and dark flowers.

2013 vintage

One of my favorite Bodega. Deep colour, big tears. M+ Ripe cherry, red berry, plum, blue berry, some black berries, floral and perfumed, nicely balanced liquorice and clove, menthol, parsley, hint of thyme and black pepper, and smoky notes. The SO2 seems to be quite high (which gives you some punched nose sensation) but no reductive aroma. On the palate the fruits are more conservative but fresher with hint of vanilla chocolate with pencil led! Rounded-ripe M tannin, high alcohol, …

2013 vintage

Ruby red. Nice nose, this has lots of red fruit, tobacco, raspberry and strawberry jam flavors with a beautiful long finish. Clearly not too old and has lasted longer than predicted. The red fruit is still fresh and young. Did do well with PNP, but added complexity with 2 to 3 hours of air time. With the entry level this good it does make me want to seek out more and also try the higher level wines.

2003 vintage

Great bottle of wine. Deeply earthy, dark fruits, spice. Double decanted for sediment into bottle and enjoyed for 2 hours. Worth the wait.

2003 vintage

The golden bottle, I guess.

2003 vintage

I still don't consider this quite mature. Coffee-like tannins linger on the finish, suggesting it's still got some aging left in it. The fruit is strong with a very good acid backbone. Drinking pretty well now, but I recommend leaving it in the cellar a couple more years.

2003 vintage

quite a nice bouquet of tar and marzipan - quite an easy drinking wine that is just a little out of balance and lacking in fruit - drink soon

2003 vintage

Didn't think much of this on the open, but really warmed up to it over time. Definitely iron/mineral notes on the nose, with more black plum on the palate. Almost Gigondas/Vacquerays-like. Warm, but not showing obvious alcohol. Enjoyable if you have low expectations, but as other have said, drink up!

2003 vintage

Holding very well at peak, nice balance and just simply enjoyable from start to finish. Should drink well for a good while.

2000 vintage

Tempranillo Day Mature Rioja Blindtasting (Tom's House, Palo Alto, California) : Group's #1 (my #3) – 21 pts; 5 firsts, 0 seconds, 1 third, 1 last place – slightly bricking very dark red violet color; appealing, maturing, spicy, ripe berry, baked berry, anise nose; tasty, mature, tart plum, tart black fruit, spices, salinity palate; medium-plus finish (13.5% alcohol)

2003 vintage

Had this side by side with the 1999, and the 2000 showed far better. Much more lively fruit and acidity, this is delivering great value.

2000 vintage

Horrid! Over the hill.....sour and acidic. May have been corked too.

2003 vintage

I agree with other posters that it's fully mature, but I find it still enjoyable. There's not a ton of fruit, and some heat is poking through not unlike an Aussie Shiraz, but there's still enough going on to be quite pleasurable. Drink 'em up, however...

2003 vintage

Ready to go now. Paired well with smoked sable fish. Not a huge wine.

2003 vintage

Six years in my cellar was maybe a bit too long. Fruit has faded while metallic and mineral notes have emerged. Nose is very muted. The palate is slightly astringent. Scorched earth and plum highlight the finish along with ample tannins. But the color is remarkably fresh without any hint of ageing. Alcohol is high and noticable. Maybe this wine is actually too young. Last one so I'll leave it to other tasters to discover that.

2003 vintage

After last night's wine, this one was very simplistic. Falls into the Old World category, with hints of mineral, pencil shavings. Good with food, but unexciting as a sipper. It's light bodied, with fairly muted fruit and not much of a finish. Nothing really wrong with it, but nothing outstanding about it. There are better tempranillos out there.

2003 vintage

Light, modest nose; simple but balanced, not much of a finish. Not bad, but past its prime.

2003 vintage

Drinking beautifully immediately from bottle

2003 vintage

Apart from a little overabundance of oak, this is immensely enjoyable juice. Great acidity, and bold coffee and chocolate flavors. Fantastic value and goes great with food. Drinking beautifully now, but not in any danger of kicking the bucket any time soon.

2000 vintage

Geat depth of colr. Pleasnat aroma of strawberries and blue berry. Good nose. Taste was smooth, with very mild tannins. Smooth finish

2000 vintage

Significantly better than the '99 vintage that I had recently. This was much less astringent with a complex long flavour. A fairly modern style, but nothing too overblown.

2000 vintage

lovely wine - not very complex but easy drinking - fully ready so drink soon

2000 vintage

Not going to bust any blocks, but rather this is a refined, elegant wine, with lots of nice tobacco and chocolate aromatics, and a soft, round mouthfeel. Nice to drink now and for the next 5 or so years.

2000 vintage

L'alcool est fort présent, mais cela donne du feu à ce vin, savoureux en diable. Boisé fondu, bonne longueur, aromatique expressive. Bon accord sur une rectte de porc à la putanesca, avec tomates, câpres, graines de fenouil et jambon cru.

2000 vintage

This is a top-flight Rioja for under $20.00. Brilliant balance. Chocolate, leather, tobacco, and blackberry flavors. Although not widely recognized as one of Rioja's legendary producers, Artadi may have been putting out the best wines of the region during the last decade or so. Drink now.

2000 vintage

Red cherry with new oak spice aromas. Somewhat light on palate, also a bit dominated by oak, but there is good acidity providing energy on finish.

2000 vintage

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