Artadi, Poza other_regions Oak is a touch more

Oak is a touch more evident than in most years because the fruit is not at full ripeness

La Aguilera and Hontoria

The 2007 Vinedo Chadwick has a lot of vanilla-y new oak on the nose although there is plenty of voluptuous black fruit to support it

the 2014 Proprietary Red needs a little coaxing to reveal slowly unfurling notions of warm black cherries

as it is once again on this night

Artadi, Poza other_regions Oak is a touch moreAs with the rest of the 2014s, the bottled 2014 La Poza de Ballesteros was quite faithful to the sample I tasted before it was bottled. In this case, the wine continued showing the riper character and more Mediterranean profile of the vineyard. As with most of the single vineyard wines from the vintage, it was aged in oak barriques for 12 months. The oak feels a little more evident (Carlos explained they used a little more new oak for it), and this is