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Notes from the Winemaker:
Deep cherry in color with a vivacious violet rim, the wine has clean aromas of ripe black fruit, English toffee and dark chocolate. On the palate it is complex and meaty with notes of ripe berries, toasted malt and sweet tobacco. A wine with surprising expressiveness that is full of character and personality, it has natural elegance and great propensity for long bottle aging.
Ratings & Reviews
98 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
The 2007 El Pison is medium purple in color with a superb, already complex nose of smoke, liquid mineral, crushed stone, lavender, balsamic, and black cherry. This leads to a beautifully proportioned, elegant, satin-textured wine with plush fruit, plenty of structure, and a lengthy, seamless finish. It can be approached now although it is still evolving and should drink well through 2027. Senor Lopez de Lacalle’s description of the 2007 is “delicate, pure, and a wine of finesse.
No visit to Rioja would be complete without a visit to Artadi and maestro Juan Carlos Lopez de Lacalle. Artadi’s most recent releases are the 2007s which were reviewed in Issue 183. On this occasion, we sampled the promising 2009s from barrel in addition to the 4 vintages of the flagship Vina El Pison (all of which have been previously reviewed, the 1995 and 1998 by Robert Parker). The El Pison comes from a single Tempranillo vineyard planted in 1945 on pure limestone. - Jay Miller (June 2010)
98 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
The 2007 Vina El Pison comes from a single Tempranillo vineyard planted in 1945 on pure limestone. It spent 16-18 months in new French oak. It offers an ethereal perfume of pain grille, liquid mineral, crushed stone, lavender, incense, blueberry, and black cherry. This leads to a beautifully proportioned, elegant, velvety wine with opulent fruit, plenty of ripe tannin, and an exceptionally lengthy finish. Drink this seamless, totally pleasure-bent, intellectually satisfying wine from 2010 to 2025. - Jay Miller (June 2009)
