Artesa

www.artesawinery.com

Artesa is Napa’s newest, most exciting winery. Our architecturally-acclaimed facility opened as Codorníu Napa in 1991, dedicated solely to method champenoise sparkling wine production.

But in 1997, with the arrival of a world-class winemaker and a $10 million conversion, the winery shifted focus dramatically. Artesa was born in the inaugural release of ultra-premium still wines in September 1999.

Artesa (ahr TESS uh) means “craftsman” and connotes “handcrafted” in Catalan, language of Barcelona and our owner Codorníu, one of the world’s largest and oldest wineries. So, while we are Napa’s newest, our heritage is rich. We share five centuries of history with 15 generations of a remarkable winemaking family.

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Artesa

Wines

Artesa Carneros Classic Chardonnay

Lemon blossoms, green apple, ripe pineapple and honeydew melon are front and center in this Chardonnay. This crisp fruitiness is combined with nuances of vanilla-topped creme brulee, butter, and toasted oak, making this wine both easy to enjoy and seductively complex. Silkily supple with lingering flavors, yet a tingle of crisp acid on the finish; a great accompaniment for food and friends.


Artesa Carneros Classic Pinot Noir

A dark and exuberant expression of great Carneros Pinot Noir. Refined and elegant aromas of cherry, red currant, chocolate and faint whiffs of leaf tobacco. This wine is beautifully subtle and multi-layered with oak spices of clove, allspice and smoke. Excellent structure gives this wine a mid-palate weight and silky sensation from start to finish. A perfectly balanced Pinot with just a gentle tingle of acid, which keeps the fruit lively throughout the whole taste. This wine is wonderful straight out of the bottle, but has the concentration and complexity to improve with several years of aging.


Artesa Napa Sonoma Classic Merlot

Brimming with raspberry, cherry and boysenberry. This satin-soft wine has layers of clove, anise, vanilla and milk chocolate serving as delicious counterpoints to the pervasive berry fruit. Supple mature tannins and a fruit-enlivening acid balance guarantee this wine will please for years to come.


Artesa Napa Sonoma Classic Cabernet Sauvignon

Bright wild blackberry and cherry are complemented by abundant spice—black pepper, clove, allspice, vanilla, nutmeg and a hint of cedar smoke. Finely knit together with a silky mid-palate, this wine has sufficient tannin backbone for aging. This wine will be delicious for the next five to ten years.


Artesa Napa Reserve Merlot

Brimming with bright cherry and raspberry. Layers of cinnamon, clove, cigar box, vanilla and chocolate serve as delicious counterpoints to the pervasive berry fruit. A serious wine with excellent color and firm yet silky tannins. In the mouth a wonderfully smooth wine that has a warm-comforting-silky feeling from start to lingering finish. A splendid acid and soft tannin balance ensure that this wine will both go well with food and evolve into a greater wine over the next decade—this is a great Merlot.


Artesa Napa Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Wonderfully exuberant raspberry, cassis and blackberry fruit is complemented with cedar, clove, nutmeg, dark chocolate and vanilla aromas and flavors. An elegant wine with smooth supple tannins, perfect acid balance and a long lingering finish. This wine is a treat in its youth, but the joyfulness of the fruit combined with its ample tannin structure means this wine will reach its zenith 10+ years after release.


Artesa Reserve Estate Chardonnay

This wine is full of pear, green apple and peach blossom with a hint of pineapple and mango. Balanced, seamless, multi-layered and elegant, this wine has a triple-creme brie texture that melts into a lingering toasted vanilla bean and butterscotch finish. Excellent balance enables the fruit to dance on the tongue through the entire taste and provides the structure to age gracefully.


Artesa Reserve Estate Pinot Noir

A refined expression of great Carneros Pinot Noir. This wine is beautifully balanced and subtle. Intertwined aromas of raspberry, cherry and red currant are forefront from start to finish. Seamlessly multi-layered with fruit and oak spices of clove, nutmeg and smoke that melt into a lingering berry and vanilla oak finish. The gentle tingle of acid that keeps the berry fruits livel, will complement food and enable this wine to age gracefully.


Artesa Reserve Tempranillo

This is a bold wine with plenty of cherry, raspberry and blackberry fruit and exuberant white pepper spice, fig and chocolate notes. There is a concentration to the extracted fruit and a slight tension within the youthful tannins that should allow this wine to improve for years. All this fruit and spice is backed up with vanilla, leather and smoke into a finely balanced wine that seamlessly glides over the palate.


Artesa Elements

This wine is brimming with lively black currant, raspberry and blueberry enveloped in a spicy bouquet of cinnamon, clove, vanilla, nutmeg and faint hints of smoked meat. The flavor is true to the aromas and the texture is silky and supple. This wonderful blend of fruit, spice and silk dances and lingers in your mouth. The acid balance and slight dryness of the tannin on the finish indicate that this wine has the structure to age gracefully for several years.


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