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Whilst other bodegas competed in the barrique race, chasing more wood, Artadi went in the opposite direction: <strong>less extraction, French rather than American oak, finesse instead of power<\/strong>. The 56 hectares in Rioja Alavesa \u2013 sheltered by the Sierra Cantabria, shaped by chalky, clay-rich soils \u2013 taught him that great wines are not born in the cellar, but in the vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>Today Juan Carlos and his children Carlos and Patricia manage <strong>nine individual vineyard sites<\/strong>, each with its own character: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/vina-el-pison-2022-artadi\/\" title=\"Artadi Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n 2022 kaufen\">Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n<\/a> with its vines planted in 1945 at 480 metres altitude \u2013 an amphitheatre of chalk and limestone that Parker once rated at 100 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/la-poza-de-ballesteros-2022-artadi\/\" title=\"Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2022 kaufen\">La Poza de Ballesteros<\/a> with its iron-rich clays. Valdegines, El Carretil, San L\u00e1zaro \u2013 names worth remembering.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219853 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/artadi_galerie1.webp\" alt=\"Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n, Artadis legend\u00e4rer Einzellagen-Weinberg in Laguardia\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Burgundy as Inspiration, \u00c1lava as Home<\/h2>\n<p>The comparison with Burgundy is no accident. L\u00f3pez de Lacalle studied the C\u00f4te d'Or and understood: <strong>hierarchy must emerge from the soil<\/strong>, not from cellar technique. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/sorte\/tempranillo\/\" title=\"Tempranillo Rebsorte - alle Weine\">Tempranillo<\/a> vines \u2013 the oldest over eighty years old \u2013 grow organically, the soils still worked in part with horses. No herbicides, no synthetic chemicals. In the cellar: open fermentation vessels for gentle extraction, French barriques for structure without dominance.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawal from the DOCa in 2015 was the logical consequence. The regulations forbade even the mention of specific vineyard sites on the back label \u2013 for a winemaker whose entire philosophy rests on the individuality of the vineyard site, an impossible situation. <strong>The wines continue to be made in Laguardia<\/strong>, in the same cellar as for forty years. Only the label now tells the whole story.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219854 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/artadi_galerie2.webp\" alt=\"Traditionelle Bodenbearbeitung mit Pferd bei Artadi\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Three Projects, One Signature<\/h2>\n<p>The search for undiscovered potential led L\u00f3pez de Lacalle beyond Rioja's borders. In 1996 he took over the winery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/artazu\/\" title=\"Artazu - Artadis Garnacha-Projekt in Navarra\">Artazu<\/a> in Navarra: hundred-year-old Garnacha vines on sparse soils, their power previously lost in anonymous blends. Three years later came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/el-seque\/\" title=\"El Sequ\u00e9 - Artadis Monastrell-Projekt in Alicante\">El Sequ\u00e9<\/a> in Alicante, where Monastrell on limestone develops Mediterranean depth.<\/p>\n<p>What unites all three projects: <strong>respect for old vines, the rejection of tricks, trust in the vineyard site<\/strong>. No reverse osmosis, no micro-oxygenation, no over-ripeness for higher scores. Wines that taste of their origin \u2013 whether that be the cool nights of Rioja Alavesa, the wild-spiced heat of Navarra or the salty breeze of Alicante.<\/p>\n<h2>Why These Wines Matter<\/h2>\n<p>At a time when Spanish wine is still often equated with over-ripe fruit bombs, Artadi proves there is another way. The wines are <strong>precise, not pompous; elegant, not exhausting<\/strong>. They age over decades without closing down in their youth.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez de Lacalle has not only built a winery, but defined a category: the Spanish <em>Grand Cru<\/em>. That he had to leave one of the world's most famous appellations to do so perhaps says more about the system than about the winemaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>","second_description_i18n":{"en":"<h2>The Pago as Compass<\/h2>\n\nWhat Juan Carlos L\u00f3pez de Lacalle began in 1985 as a cooperative in Laguardia is today one of Spain's most radical terroir-focused producers. Whilst other bodegas competed in the barrique race, chasing more wood, Artadi went in the opposite direction: <strong>less extraction, French rather than American oak, finesse instead of power<\/strong>. The 56 hectares in Rioja Alavesa \u2013 sheltered by the Sierra Cantabria, shaped by chalky, clay-rich soils \u2013 taught him that great wines are not born in the cellar, but in the vineyard.\n\nToday Juan Carlos and his children Carlos and Patricia manage <strong>nine individual vineyard sites<\/strong>, each with its own character: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/vina-el-pison-2022-artadi\/\" title=\"Artadi Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n 2022 kaufen\">Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n<\/a> with its vines planted in 1945 at 480 metres altitude \u2013 an amphitheatre of chalk and limestone that Parker once rated at 100 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/la-poza-de-ballesteros-2022-artadi\/\" title=\"Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2022 kaufen\">La Poza de Ballesteros<\/a> with its iron-rich clays. Valdegines, El Carretil, San L\u00e1zaro \u2013 names worth remembering.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219853 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/artadi_galerie1.webp\" alt=\"Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n, Artadis legend\u00e4rer Einzellagen-Weinberg in Laguardia\" \/>\n\n<h2>Burgundy as Inspiration, \u00c1lava as Home<\/h2>\n\nThe comparison with Burgundy is no accident. L\u00f3pez de Lacalle studied the C\u00f4te d'Or and understood: <strong>hierarchy must emerge from the soil<\/strong>, not from cellar technique. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/sorte\/tempranillo\/\" title=\"Tempranillo Rebsorte - alle Weine\">Tempranillo<\/a> vines \u2013 the oldest over eighty years old \u2013 grow organically, the soils still worked in part with horses. No herbicides, no synthetic chemicals. In the cellar: open fermentation vessels for gentle extraction, French barriques for structure without dominance.\n\nThe withdrawal from the DOCa in 2015 was the logical consequence. The regulations forbade even the mention of specific vineyard sites on the back label \u2013 for a winemaker whose entire philosophy rests on the individuality of the vineyard site, an impossible situation. <strong>The wines continue to be made in Laguardia<\/strong>, in the same cellar as for forty years. Only the label now tells the whole story.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219854 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/artadi_galerie2.webp\" alt=\"Traditionelle Bodenbearbeitung mit Pferd bei Artadi\" \/>\n\n<h2>Three Projects, One Signature<\/h2>\n\nThe search for undiscovered potential led L\u00f3pez de Lacalle beyond Rioja's borders. In 1996 he took over the winery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/artazu\/\" title=\"Artazu - Artadis Garnacha-Projekt in Navarra\">Artazu<\/a> in Navarra: hundred-year-old Garnacha vines on sparse soils, their power previously lost in anonymous blends. Three years later came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/el-seque\/\" title=\"El Sequ\u00e9 - Artadis Monastrell-Projekt in Alicante\">El Sequ\u00e9<\/a> in Alicante, where Monastrell on limestone develops Mediterranean depth.\n\nWhat unites all three projects: <strong>respect for old vines, the rejection of tricks, trust in the vineyard site<\/strong>. No reverse osmosis, no micro-oxygenation, no over-ripeness for higher scores. Wines that taste of their origin \u2013 whether that be the cool nights of Rioja Alavesa, the wild-spiced heat of Navarra or the salty breeze of Alicante.\n\n<h2>Why These Wines Matter<\/h2>\n\nAt a time when Spanish wine is still often equated with over-ripe fruit bombs, Artadi proves there is another way. The wines are <strong>precise, not pompous; elegant, not exhausting<\/strong>. They age over decades without closing down in their youth.\n\nL\u00f3pez de Lacalle has not only built a winery, but defined a category: the Spanish <em>Grand Cru<\/em>. That he had to leave one of the world's most famous appellations to do so perhaps says more about the system than about the winemaker.","fr":"<h2>Le Pago comme boussole<\/h2>\n\nCe que Juan Carlos L\u00f3pez de Lacalle a commenc\u00e9 en 1985 comme coop\u00e9rative \u00e0 Laguardia est aujourd'hui l'un des plus radicaux terrou\u00e9ristes d'Espagne. Tandis que d'autres bodegas se battaient pour plus de bois dans la course au barrique, Artadi a pris la direction oppos\u00e9e : <strong>moins d'extraction, du ch\u00eane fran\u00e7ais plut\u00f4t qu'am\u00e9ricain, de la finesse plut\u00f4t que de la puissance<\/strong>. Les 56 hectares de la Rioja Alavesa \u2013 prot\u00e9g\u00e9s par la Sierra Cantabria, marqu\u00e9s par des sols calcaires et argileux \u2013 lui ont enseign\u00e9 que les grands vins ne naissent pas \u00e0 la cave, mais \u00e0 la parcelle.\n\nAujourd'hui, Juan Carlos et ses enfants Carlos et Patricia g\u00e8rent <strong>neuf crus individuels<\/strong>, chacun avec son propre caract\u00e8re : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/fr\/vina-el-pison-2022-artadi\/\" title=\"Artadi Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n 2022 kaufen\">Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n<\/a> avec ses vignes plant\u00e9es en 1945 \u00e0 480 m\u00e8tres d'altitude \u2013 un amphith\u00e9\u00e2tre de calcaire et de craie, autrefois not\u00e9 100 points par Parker. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/fr\/la-poza-de-ballesteros-2022-artadi\/\" title=\"Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2022 kaufen\">La Poza de Ballesteros<\/a> avec ses argiles ferrugineuses. Valdegines, El Carretil, San L\u00e1zaro \u2013 des noms qu'on retient.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219853 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/artadi_galerie1.webp\" alt=\"Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n, Artadis legend\u00e4rer Einzellagen-Weinberg in Laguardia\" \/>\n\n<h2>La Bourgogne comme inspiration, l'\u00c1lava comme patrie<\/h2>\n\nLa comparaison avec la Bourgogne n'est pas un hasard. L\u00f3pez de Lacalle a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 la C\u00f4te d'Or et a compris : <strong>la hi\u00e9rarchie doit partir du sol<\/strong>, non de la technique de cave. Ses vignes de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/fr\/sorte\/tempranillo\/\" title=\"Tempranillo Rebsorte - alle Weine\">Tempranillo<\/a> \u2013 les plus anciennes ayant plus de quatre-vingts ans \u2013 poussent en biologie, les sols sont encore partiellement travaill\u00e9s au cheval. Pas d'herbicide, pas de chimie synth\u00e9tique. \u00c0 la cave : des cuves ouvertes pour une extraction douce, des barriques fran\u00e7aises pour la structure sans dominance.\n\nLe d\u00e9part de la DOCa en 2015 \u00e9tait la cons\u00e9quence logique. Le r\u00e8glement interdisait m\u00eame la mention de vignobles sp\u00e9cifiques au dos de l'\u00e9tiquette \u2013 pour un vigneron dont toute la philosophie repose sur l'individualit\u00e9 du cru, une situation impossible. <strong>Les vins continuent d'\u00eatre \u00e9labor\u00e9s \u00e0 Laguardia<\/strong>, dans la m\u00eame cave depuis quarante ans. Seule l'\u00e9tiquette raconte d\u00e9sormais toute l'histoire.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219854 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/artadi_galerie2.webp\" alt=\"Traditionelle Bodenbearbeitung mit Pferd bei Artadi\" \/>\n\n<h2>Trois projets, une signature<\/h2>\n\nLa qu\u00eate de potentiel inexplor\u00e9 a conduit L\u00f3pez de Lacalle au-del\u00e0 des fronti\u00e8res de la Rioja. En 1996, il a repris le domaine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/fr\/artazu\/\" title=\"Artazu - Artadis Garnacha-Projekt in Navarra\">Artazu<\/a> en Navarre : des vignes de Grenache centenaires sur des sols arides, dont la puissance disparaissait jusqu'alors dans des cuv\u00e9es anonymes. Trois ans plus tard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/fr\/el-seque\/\" title=\"El Sequ\u00e9 - Artadis Monastrell-Projekt in Alicante\">El Sequ\u00e9<\/a> a suivi \u00e0 Alicante, o\u00f9 le Monastrell sur calcaire d\u00e9veloppe une profondeur m\u00e9diterran\u00e9enne.\n\nCe qui unit les trois projets : <strong>le respect des vieilles vignes, le refus des artifices, la confiance dans le terroir<\/strong>. Pas d'osmose inverse, pas de micro-oxyg\u00e9nation, pas de surmaturation pour des points suppl\u00e9mentaires. Des vins qui ont le go\u00fbt de leurs origines \u2013 qu'il s'agisse des nuits fra\u00eeches de la Rioja Alavesa, de la chaleur \u00e9pic\u00e9e et sauvage de la Navarre ou de la brise sal\u00e9e d'Alicante.\n\n<h2>Pourquoi ces vins sont importants<\/h2>\n\n\u00c0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 le vin espagnol est souvent assimil\u00e9 \u00e0 des bombes de fruits surmuris, Artadi prouve qu'il existe une autre voie. Les vins sont <strong>pr\u00e9cis, non pompeux ; \u00e9l\u00e9gants, non \u00e9puisants<\/strong>. Ils vieillissent sur des d\u00e9cennies sans se fermer dans leur jeunesse.\n\nL\u00f3pez de Lacalle n'a pas seulement construit un domaine, il a d\u00e9fini une cat\u00e9gorie : le <em>Grand Cru<\/em> espagnol. Le fait qu'il ait d\u00fb quitter l'une des appellations les plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bres du monde pour cela en dit peut-\u00eatre plus sur le syst\u00e8me que sur le vigneron.","it":"<h2>Il Pago come bussola<\/h2>\n\nQuello che Juan Carlos L\u00f3pez de Lacalle ha iniziato nel 1985 come cooperativa a Laguardia \u00e8 oggi uno dei pi\u00f9 radicali terroir-isti della Spagna. Mentre altre bodega competevano nel torchio barriques cercando pi\u00f9 legno, Artadi ha preso la direzione opposta: <strong>meno estrazione, quercia francese invece che americana, finezza invece che potenza<\/strong>. I 56 ettari nella Rioja Alavesa \u2013 protetti dalla Sierra Cantabria, caratterizzati da terreni calcarei e ricchi di argilla \u2013 gli hanno insegnato che i grandi vini non nascono in cantina, ma in vigna.\n\nOggi Juan Carlos e i suoi figli Carlos e Patricia gestiscono <strong>nove vigneti in cru<\/strong>, ognuno con carattere proprio: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/it\/vina-el-pison-2022-artadi\/\" title=\"Artadi Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n 2022 kaufen\">Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n<\/a> con le sue viti piantate nel 1945 a 480 metri di altitudine \u2013 un anfiteatro di calcare e gesso, che Parker una volta valut\u00f2 100 punti. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/it\/la-poza-de-ballesteros-2022-artadi\/\" title=\"Artadi La Poza de Ballesteros 2022 kaufen\">La Poza de Ballesteros<\/a> con i suoi terreni argillosi ricchi di ferro. Valdegines, El Carretil, San L\u00e1zaro \u2013 nomi che rimangono impressi.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219853 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/artadi_galerie1.webp\" alt=\"Vi\u00f1a El Pis\u00f3n, Artadis legend\u00e4rer Einzellagen-Weinberg in Laguardia\" \/>\n\n<h2>La Borgogna come ispirazione, l'\u00c1lava come patria<\/h2>\n\nIl confronto con la Borgogna non \u00e8 casuale. L\u00f3pez de Lacalle ha studiato la C\u00f4te d'Or e ha compreso: <strong>la gerarchia deve partire dal terreno<\/strong>, non dalla tecnica di cantina. Le sue viti di <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/it\/sorte\/tempranillo\/\" title=\"Tempranillo Rebsorte - alle Weine\">Tempranillo<\/a> \u2013 le pi\u00f9 vecchie oltre gli ottanta anni \u2013 crescono biologicamente, i terreni vengono ancora in parte lavorati con il cavallo. Nessun erbicida, nessuna chimica sintetica. In cantina: vasche aperte per un'estrazione delicata, barriques francesi per struttura senza dominanza.\n\nL'uscita dalla DOCa nel 2015 \u00e8 stata la conseguenza logica. Il regolamento vietava persino la menzione di vigneti specifici sull'etichetta posteriore \u2013 per un vignaiolo la cui intera filosofia si basa sull'individualit\u00e0 della parcella, una situazione impossibile. <strong>I vini continuano a essere vinificati a Laguardia<\/strong>, nella stessa cantina da quarant'anni. Solo l'etichetta ora racconta la storia completa.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219854 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/artadi_galerie2.webp\" alt=\"Traditionelle Bodenbearbeitung mit Pferd bei Artadi\" \/>\n\n<h2>Tre progetti, una firma<\/h2>\n\nLa ricerca di potenziale ancora inesplorato ha portato L\u00f3pez de Lacalle oltre i confini della Rioja. Nel 1996 ha rilevato in Navarra l'azienda vinicola <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/it\/artazu\/\" title=\"Artazu - Artadis Garnacha-Projekt in Navarra\">Artazu<\/a>: viti di Garnacha centenarie su terreni aridi, la cui forza fino ad allora scompariva in cuv\u00e9e anonime. Tre anni dopo segu\u00ec <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/it\/el-seque\/\" title=\"El Sequ\u00e9 - Artadis Monastrell-Projekt in Alicante\">El Sequ\u00e9<\/a> ad Alicante, dove il Monastrell su calcare sviluppa una profondit\u00e0 mediterranea.\n\nCi\u00f2 che unisce tutti e tre i progetti: <strong>il rispetto per le viti vecchie, l'assenza di artifici, la fiducia nella parcella<\/strong>. Nessuna osmosi inversa, nessuna micro-ossigenazione, nessuna sovramaturazione per punteggi pi\u00f9 alti. Vini che sanno di dove vengono \u2013 che sia il fresco delle notti della Rioja Alavesa, il calore selvaggio e speziato della Navarra o la brezza salata di Alicante.\n\n<h2>Perch\u00e9 questi vini sono importanti<\/h2>\n\nIn un'epoca in cui il vino spagnolo \u00e8 ancora spesso associato a bombe di frutta sovramatura, Artadi dimostra che esiste un'altra strada. I vini sono <strong>precisi, non pomposi; eleganti, non estenuanti<\/strong>. Invecchiano nel corso dei decenni, senza chiudersi nella giovinezza.\n\nL\u00f3pez de Lacalle non ha solo costruito un'azienda vinicola, ma ha definito una categoria: il <em>Grand Cru<\/em> spagnolo. Il fatto che per farlo abbia dovuto abbandonare una delle pi\u00f9 famose denominazioni del mondo forse dice pi\u00f9 sul sistema che sul vignaiolo."},"parent_name":"Rioja & Navarra","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/3796"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebendigeweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}