Artadi San Lorenzo de Quintanilla

Artadi San Lorenzo de Quintanilla is a red wine made by the Bodegas y Viñedos Artadi winery in Laguardia, Rioja Alavesa.

Bodegas y Viñedos Artadi’s origins date back to 1985, when a group of winegrowers decided to get together and start making their wines as a cooperative.

In 1992 the Lacalle took over the running of this cooperative with the aim of producing unique wines, wines that reflect their origin. They put all their effort into cultivating the vineyard, thereby giving greater prominence to smallholding wines. This led to them leaving the D.O.Ca. Rioja in 2015, without abandoning wine production in this region.

Bodegas y Viñedos Artadi currently has over 80 hectares of vineyards in La Rioja, with different characteristics, especially in terms of the composition of the soils. It is also part of the winemaking group that also consists of the wineries Bodegas y Viñedos Artazu (Navarre) and Bodegas y Viñedos El Sequé (Alicante).

Artadi San Lorenzo de Quintanilla is a red wine made with Tempranillo grapes from a 1.10 hectare plot that is over 60 years old, in the municipality of Elvillar de Álava. It is located at an altitude of 570 meters, on the top of a small ridge on shallow clay-calcareous soils. Some vestiges of the old medieval town of San Lorenzo de Quintanilla can still be seen.

After harvesting by hand, and once in the cellar, it undergoes a cold pre-maceration for 2 or 3 days. Fermentation takes place in open wooden vats with native yeasts. Malolactic fermentation takes place for 12 months in French oak barrels.