Artadi San Lázaro 2023 En Primeur

The unbottled 2023 San Lázaro shows a nose of ripe berry fruit—black rather than red—with an earthy touch and a little darker in all senses than the bottled 2022 I tasted next to it. There is a faint earthiness and perhaps iron, meat or blood-like touch here. It has 14.4% alcohol and a fine-boned palate with fine-grained tannins, subdued chalky minerality, the Laguardia elegance and this plot's length. Since 2022, all of the plots include the white grapes that are planted in the vineyard together with the Tempranillo. They expect to fill some 4,000 bottles around May or June 2025. (Luis Guitérrez)