Bodegas Artadi - Alicante: El Seque Las Morachuelas 2023

Parker om: El Seque Las Morachuelas

The lieu-dit 2023 Morachuelas was produced with Monastrell from the 13 hectares in the village of Abanilla in a gorge surrounded by forest where the soils contain gray marl, limestone and alluvial sand and colluvial materials on top. It fermented in stainless steel and matured in a new Austrian oak foudre for one year. Even if there's impact from the oak being new this first year, there's finesse here, and it's delicate, more than the Hondonico, the tannins. It's powerful but also subtle, with a fine thread and elegant tannins with subtle chalkiness. They get a lot less sun, being between mountains here. 3,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in December 2024.