Artadi Valdegines Alava, Spain 2023 Amyndaio with pillowy fruit that tastes

with pillowy fruit that tastes so sublime it would be limiting to attempt a description

ripe lime and papaya

with notes of orange blossom

This wine should pair well with quail in plum sauce

Artadi Valdegines Alava, Spain 2023 Amyndaio with pillowy fruit that tastesI 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