Marimar Estate
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Marimar Estate is a Californian winery located in Sonoma County, owned by Marimar Torres, the sister of Miguel A. Torres, President of Bodegas Torres.
In 1986 Marimar Torres embarked on a project to plant a 60 acre vineyard on the western hills of DO Russian River Valley, in Green Valley, sub-appellation of Sonoma County, very close to the Pacific: with a cold microclimate that is ideal for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The vineyard is called Don Miguel, after her father, Miguel Torres Carbó, the architect of the worldwide expansion of the Torres family business. Of the vineyards 60 acres 30 are planted with Chardonnay and the other 30 with Pinot Noir.
The Doña Margarita vineyard, named after Marimar’s mother, was planted in 2002 and dominates Freestone Valley, DO Sonoma Coast. Although the estate has 180 acres, only 12 of these have been earmarked for vines and planted with Pinot Noir. A large area of the estate remains unspoilt, and abounds with wildlife and indigenous plant species. At the Sonoma vineyard they have managed successfully to reproduce traditional Mediterranean viticultural practices, such as a vertical trellis for the vines, the choice of rootstocks that are more resistant to phylloxera and a planting density of 2m x 1m (2,000 vines per acre). Since 2003 both vineyards have been subject to organic cultivation.
The winery, with a capacity of 15,000 cases is located at the top of a hill in the middle of the vineyard. Marimar Estate wines are exported to over 40 countries, mainly to Sweden, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and Iceland, among others.
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- Article in the Diario El Mundo. Magazine. La española que triunfa en California (The Spanish Woman who has triumphed in California). No. 425. Sunday 18th November 2007
- Magazine Todo Vino.com. Marimar Torres: Soy la prueba más clara de que se puede sobrevivir sin Parker (I’m the living proof that you can survive without Parker), September 2007
- Magazine (ask?) Comer& Beber. Marimar Torres, seducida por California (Marimar Torres, Seduced by California), December 2006
- Mauricio Wiesenthal. Salvat Editores, 2001. ISBN: 84-345-0932-6
- Article in the newspaper La Vanguardia: Torres juega fuerte en California (Torres, Playing to Win in California). Date: 1/01/2003
