2022 Artuke Paso Ias Manas Rioja

Paso las Manas is a single vineyard wine that comes from a beautiful site tucked against the very edge of the Sierra Cantabria, right on the northern extreme of the Rioja Alavesa area. It's position against the mountains means it's the last ripening, coldest site, and usually producers the highest acidity wine. It's soils are also completely inundated with big chunks of limestone that have made their way down the mountains in the preceding centuries, luckily though, and one of the reasons this site is so unique is that sits on a spur line, mean the water that runs off the mountain side is diverted to the side of Paso las Manas - had the vineyard been planted 200 meters to the side, the run off from the mountains would have made it a super high yielding but terrible quality site. As it is, even at this young age, it looks as if it could become one of the top cru's of Rioja.