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Actor Antonio Banderas makes debut in wine business
Madrid, EFE:
Banderas will be the co-owner along
with the Ortega family which has run the firm for 10 years, but the newly
structured company will be known as Anta Banderas Bodegas...
Actor
Antonio Banderas is making his debut in the wine business by acquiring half the
shares of Anta Bodegas, which produces wines under the Ribera del Duero label,
as well as extra virgin olive oil.
Banderas
will be the co-owner along with the Ortega family which has run the firm for 10
years, but the newly structured company will be known as Anta Banderas Bodegas,
the company announced Monday.
Anta Bodegas, based in the central Spanish town of Villalba de Duero, was founded in
1999 by Teodoro Ortega with an initial investment of 30 million euros ($39
million) and currently his sons Federico and Teodoro manage the business.
The firm
has a production capacity of 1.5 million bottles per year, which are sold
throughout Spain and are exported to
the main countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
From the
235 hectares (about 590 acres) of its own vineyards, the firm produces four
reds and a rose.
In this new
phase of operations as Anta Banderas, the brand names of the firm's wines will
be preserved along with the design of the labels, however they will now bear
the firm's new name.
"Antonio
Banderas is someone who is passionate about the world of wine and it makes us
proud that he selected us as partners. Together, we'll continue standing for
quality and we will provide the operation with a bigger international
dimension," Federico Ortega said.
The Spanish
actor has expressed his interest in becoming personally involved in all the
wine production processes.
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