1998 Artadi Rioja Viña el Pisón

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 92.6 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Benoit Hardy's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/15/2024 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 94 Points

  High quality cap
  
  Spicy and earthy nose with lots of black fruits
  
  Silky and elegant on the palate, the wine seems picked at maturity and the juice unfolds a whole palette of aromas of leather, sweet spices and cedar. Complex and classy, it glides by itself with disconcerting ease, of great intensity, with a very nice balance where the acidity is at the service of the wine to give it energy and liveliness. Beautiful powdery and earthy finish at the same time with great length, fresh and sapid.
  
  Excellent Rioja, although it doesn't have the depth of the 1995 which impressed me, it remains delicious and far from being tired!

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Darbus123's profile
  • Report Issue

  9/9/2023 - Darbus123 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Absolutely brilliant wine, so much complexity and depth of flavour. Drinking wonderfully now, a mix of tertiary notes but also plenty of fruit left. Fantastic.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View lolo66's profile
  • Report Issue

  5/10/2022 - lolo66 wrote: 95 Points

  drinking at its apex. a stunning and balanced mid weight wine with sweet citrus oil enveloping every sip. Oak has all but integrated, but there are small notes of oak present. Probably could last longer, but I would drink these now.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View ChrisR's profile
  • Report Issue

  8/31/2019 - ChrisR Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Dark fruits, with loads of spice, leather and earth and a little sweetness on the tail. Open, generous, with the acid and not tannin lending the structure. More vibrant than the last bottle I had (which tasted a little tired). Totally delicious!

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Papies's profile
  • Report Issue

  6/8/2019 - Papies wrote: 92 Points

  9 & 8 years sine we tried this wine (from the same batch) and then rated 91 & 93 respectively.
  The wine is definitely healthy and shows its age and definitely has matured well. Its good but not great is what we will sum it up. Good dark fruits, good secondary feel , light smoky. We would never place it as a tempranilio and maybe now paying the price a bit for a very ripe youth. Good wine but not the super wine it sets out to be. Maybe these first attempts of making this wine they where still trying to figure out what they wanted. Definitely subsequent vintages have been better. 91-92

  2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

View all 24 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.