- 100% Tempranillo
- From the village of Elvillar de Álava
- The vineyard was planted 1965 and has deep soils with a loamy, permeable texture and organic material on the surface
- One of Artadi’s newer single-vineyard bottlings
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2021
Country:
Spain
Region:
Basque Country
Appellation:
Vino de Espana
Variety:
Tempranillo
Color:
Red
Farming Practice:
Practicing Organic
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | ES-ART-24-21 | 6/750ml |
Resources
Press & Reviews
Vinous
Score
96
Date
2024-04-18
"The 2021 La Hoya is an impressive new Rioja red. Crafted from 100% Tempranillo sourced from a 1965-planted plot on calcareous soils, it hails from Elvillar de Álava, Rioja Alavesa. This purple-hued wine offers a bouquet of violet, grapefruit and herbs, intertwined with notes of pennyroyal and cherry. On the palate, it is dry, rich and fairly chalky, with a compact and complex finish that maintains primary freshness. This wine exemplifies a terroir-driven approach, also showcasing Artadi's distinctive, peppery style."
Wine Advocate
Score
95
Date
2024-02-29
"The 2021 La Hoya was one of the surprises. The wine has grown a lot and feels serious and elegant, open and expressive, showy and a little exuberant, with a very elegant palate too, seamless, with fine tannins, precise, focused and clean. They feel the vineyard is improving, getting better balanced and delivering better and better grapes and wines with less rusticity and more finesse. 4,000 bottles were filled in May 2023."
James Suckling
Score
94
Date
2023-10-09
"Lots of wet earth, dark mushrooms and bark with blackberries and raspberries. Medium to full body, with firm and lightly chewy tannins that are so silky. Tight and focused with a savory finish. From organically grown grapes. Give it two or three years."
REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES
2022
James Suckling
Score
95
Date
2024-10-03
"This La Hoya shows slightly sweet berries along with rose petal and dark mineral character. There are touches of ripe blue fruit and goji berries as well. Chalky tannins on the palate, with iodine and a bit more roundness from the blue fruit. But essentially, this is still a stony red. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold."
2022
Tim Atkin, MW
Score
94
Date
2025-02-27
"La Houra is an east-facing, 3.3-hectare vineyard planted in the mid-1960s and sits right next to the L¢pez de Lacalle's La Hoya parcel in the La Revilla paraje. Subtly wooded in French oak barrels and demi-muids, it has sinewy tannins, scented wood spices, a violet top note and plum, redcurrant and blackberry fruit flavors. 2027-2037"
2022
Wine Advocate
Score
94
Date
2025-02-27
"The bottled 2022 La Hoya delivers what it promised last year, after spending two winters in oak, the first one in 500- and 600-liter barrels and the second one in foudre. It's from an east-facing 3.6-hectare vineyard planted in 1965 on deep and dark soils on hard sandstone, in a hole (that's what the name means), possibly a lake in the distant past. It combines the fruit of the sandstone with the clout of the silt and is expressive, aromatic and open. It's clean, harmonious, quite approachable and quite round, with good ripeness and 14.6% alcohol but with good overall freshness. 5,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2024."
2022
Vinous
Score
93
Date
2025-05-22
"The 2022 La Hoya, a single-varietal Tempranillo from El Villar, leans into oaky flavors, with ripe black cherry and wild herb aromas. Less nuanced than the 2021 due to the warmer year, it delivers moderate freshness, grippy tannins and an intense, distinctly chalky mouthfeel."