History Bodegas Artevino (Orben)
Orben is a new project of the Anton family. Gonzalo Anton comes from the restaurant business (his father has a Michelin starred restaurant in Vitoria, the Zaldiaran), and they organise every year a gastronomy convention where the best chefs of the world invite their best clients. It was not their first wine project: the Anton family also own the Izadi estate, in their native Rioja Alavesa, and Finca Villacreces, in Quintanillo de Onésimo (Ribera del Duero). Their latest projects include the small estate of Vetus, in Toro, and this Orben, a top vineyard on the slopes of the Sierra Cantabria, in Laguardia (Rioja Alavesa). In this high altitude area, the Antons selected old Tempranillo vines. The bodega is a modern and spectacular building, dug into the mountainside, almost entirely beneath the soil. The view on the Ebro valley is fabulous. The Antons have great ambitions for this estate. They want to combine tradition and modernity to bottle “the essence of Tempranillo”.