Artuke

The name is made from those of the two brothers who run it: Arturo and Kike de Miguel.

Their father, Roberto de Miguel, stopped selling in bulk in 1991 and started bottling. The project belongs to his sons today.

The winery is small and sits in Baños de Ebro, a village of the Rioja Alavesa on the bank of the river.

La Condenada is named after what it was: an abandoned plot — literally the condemned one — that the brothers rescued in 2012. It is under a hectare of bush vines, between 520 and 630 metres, on sandy soil over sandstone, with old tempranillo alongside graciano, garnacha and other old varieties. The first vintage was 2013.

Paso las Mañas is tempranillo from vineyard between 650 and 700 metres, north-south facing on clay and limestone soils. Trascuevas was the house's first white: 90% viura with malvasía and palomino fino, from three organic vineyards over fifty years old, fermented in concrete and aged ten months on lees.