La Hoya

Score

96

"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."

Score

95

"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."