Korteta

The spicy, herbal and balsamic 2019 Korteta is his new "second wine" in the Bordeaux sense, produced with a blend of 88% Garnacha and 12% Graciano from different vineyards where the Graciano makes the blend sharper and energetic. It's ripe without excess at 14.4% alcohol and has a low pH of 3.4 and good acidity especially for a warm year like 2019. It's tasty and textured with some chalky tannins. This wine takes the name from a vineyard they have in the village of Artazu, but they use other grapes too. It fermented with 10% full clusters, which might have added to the spiciness. It matured in a combination of used barriques, glass demijohns and small tinajas. 3,000 bottles were filled in August 2020. This is also sold without appellation of origin.