Artadi

Founded in 1985 in the village of Laguardia in Rioja Alavesa, Artadi began life as a small growers’ cooperative before being taken over in the early 1990s by winemaker Juan Carlos López de Lacalle and his family. Under their direction the estate shifted to an ambitious, terroir‑driven philosophy, converting vineyards to organic and biodynamic practices and focusing on old‑vine Tempranillo planted on poor, limestone‑rich soils. In 2015 Artadi made headlines by withdrawing from the Rioja DOCa, arguing that the region…