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2019 Artesa Winery 'Galatea' Cabernet Red Blend, USA
Ana Diogo-Draper's Tempranillo-Cabernet Galatea, 95 from Wine Enthusiast, a 2019 you can open at fifty-five dollars.
Galatea is 51 percent Tempranillo and 49 percent Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley: red and black fruit, tobacco, spice, mocha, and velvety tannins, now $55.
Spain's grape and Napa's grape in one Napa Valley bottle
Galatea is named for the muse. The blend is the brief: Tempranillo for savory lift, Cabernet Sauvignon for dark fruit and structure, both from Napa Valley. Wine Enthusiast's Elaine Chukan Brown gave this exact 2019 95 points for red and black fruit, wet tobacco, mixed spices, velvety tannins, and a long finish. No other vineyard is printed on the label, so none is claimed here.
The house
Raventos Codorniu built Artesa in 1991. Galatea is the Spanish-American conversation in the cellar, made by Ana Diogo-Draper.
The wine
51% Tempranillo, 49% Cabernet Sauvignon. Napa Valley. 14.5% ABV. Plum, cassis, tobacco, mocha, velvety tannin.
The scores
Wine Enthusiast 95 on this exact 2019. Drink window published 2024 to 2030.
The drinker
Red and black fruit first. Give it 30 minutes of air. Serve 60 to 64 F. Grilled lamb or braised short ribs.
Red and black fruit, then tobacco and mocha
Wine Enthusiast found juicy red and black fruit, wet tobacco, and mixed spices. The house language adds plum, cassis, black cherry, dry tobacco, and mocha on velvety tannins.
A generous Napa red year. Tempranillo keeps the blend from turning into plain Cabernet weight. Cabernet keeps it from turning into a simple Spanish pastiche.
Red and black fruit, plum, cassis, black cherry, tobacco, mixed spice, mocha.
Full, velvety tannins, 14.5% ABV, a long fleshy close.
Spice and mocha. 30 minutes of air. Serve 60 to 64 F.
Two grapes, one Napa Valley voice
Ana Diogo-Draper blends Tempranillo, Spain's savory red, with Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa's dark-fruited spine. The 2019 is 51 percent Tempranillo and 49 percent Cabernet. That near-even split is the point: neither grape is a seasoning. The wine is bottled as Napa Valley. The vineyard is not named on the label, so the blend and the vintage do the talking.
Wine Enthusiast's window is 2024 to 2030. Seven years in bottle have already rounded the corners.
Serve 60 to 64 F after 30 minutes of air. Lamb and short ribs pull tobacco and spice forward.
A Spanish family learning to speak Napa red
Artesa is the Raventos Codorniu Napa house. Galatea is the bottle that puts Tempranillo and Cabernet in the same sentence.
The family arrived in 1991 for sparkling wine and still Pinot. Napa reds, including this limited Galatea, came as the house learned the valley.
Ana Diogo-Draper, raised in Portugal, has been the winemaking voice. The 2019 Galatea is her Spanish-American blend, not a second-label leftover.
No To Kalon, no other vineyard name. The label says Galatea and Napa Valley. That is the claim.
Rosemary, garlic, a slow braise
Tempranillo likes herbs and smoke. Cabernet likes a rich sauce. Grilled lamb or red-wine short ribs give both grapes a landing.
Two plates. One grilled leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary. One red-wine braised short ribs.
Serve 60 to 64 F. Give it about 30 minutes of air so the spice and mocha open without softening the shape.
Grilled Leg of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary
Smoke, herbs, and a pink center. Galatea's savory landing.
Why it works: Rosemary and garlic echo Tempranillo's spice while lamb fat softens Cabernet tannin.
View Recipe for grilled leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary (opens in a new tab)
Red Wine-Braised Short Ribs
A slow sauce, gelatin, and browned edges. The richer plate for a 95-point blend.
Why it works: Mocha and tobacco meet the braise. Velvety tannins hold the sauce.
View Recipe for red wine-braised short ribs (opens in a new tab)Put Galatea in the cart
51/49 Tempranillo-Cabernet, Wine Enthusiast 95, fifty-five dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is the Artesa red for a table that wants Spain and Napa in the same glass.
