Artadi, Poza

Artadi, PozaAs with the rest of the 2014s, the bottled 2014 La Poza de Ballesteros was quite faithful to the sample I tasted before it was bottled. In this case, the wine continued showing the riper character and more Mediterranean profile of the vineyard. As with most of the single vineyard wines from the vintage, it was aged in oak barriques for 12 months. The oak feels a little more evident (Carlos explained they used a little more new oak for it), and this is

leaf and smoke create the perfume

more elegant and more compact than its peers

Both the 2010 and the 2009 continue to blow me away every time I taste them

as the next vintage that is scheduled for release

The 2004 Blanc des Millenaires offers a striking combination of freshness and the complexity that develops in bottle

with piquant raspberry aromas

I was frankly shocked to find that the aromatic profile here was even more elegant and arguably finer than that of the Amoureuses with its bright red and blue pinot fruit

Here the sense of delicacy is nearly weightless

kumquat and lemon zest with an emerging core of honey-drizzled white peach

high glycerin and good acidity

lErmite and Les Bessards)

as it has really come on strong with bottle age