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<H1>About Us</h1><br>
<h2>Biography</h2>
<h2>Marimar Estate</h2>
<h3>Proprietor/Winegrower</h3>
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<b>Marimar Torres has been involved in the wine business all her life. </b>
Born in 1945 in Barcelona, Spain, she is fluent in six languages and holds a degree in Business and Economics from the University of Barcelona. She is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program, and studied Enology and Viticulture for a year at the University of California in Davis.
At Marimar Estate, she directs the activities at the winery and its two vineyards: Don Miguel, named for her late father, in Sonoma County's Russian River / Green Valley ; and Doña Margarita, after her mother, in the Sonoma Coast Appellation.
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Prior to her involvement in the Sonoma operation, Marimar traveled extensively promoting Torres wines, first in Spain as the company’s export director and later in North America, when California became her home in 1975. At that time, shipments of Torres wines to the U.S. totaled 15,000 cases; ten years later they reached 150,000. To achieve this was not easy, though; especially in the beginning, Marimar was confronted with the common notion that the wine business was no place for a woman. Eventually, her tenacity and business acumen helped her overcome this bias, and she became the best-known ambassador of Spanish wines in America.
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In 1992, a 15,000-case winery was built and the Estate’s first Pinot Noir was produced. Marimar's dedication to the family business, however, has not come at the expense of other pursuits. An authority on Spanish cuisine, her first book, The Spanish Table: The Cuisines and Wines of Spain, was published in 1986. Her second book, The Catalan Country Kitchen: Food and Wine from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean Seacoast of Barcelona, came out in April 1992. Her hobbies include cooking, skiing, horseback riding, jogging, piano and, especially, traveling with her daughter, Cristina.
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<b>Marimar and Cristina in the Don Miguel Vineyard</b>
<H2>MARIMAR ESTATE</H2>
<h3>Torres Family Vineyards</h3>
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<a href="biography.php">About Us - Biography</a>
<a href="history.php">About Us - History</a>
<a href="organic_farming.php">About Us - Organic Farming</a>
<a href="don_miguel_vineyard.php">About Us - Don Miguel Vineyard</a>
<a href="dona_margarita_vineyard.php">About Us - Dona Margarita_Vineyard</a>
<a href="don_miguel_vineyard_pinot_noir.php">Our Wines - 2001 Don Miguel Vineyard Pinot Noir</a>
<a href="cristina_selection_pinot_noir.php">Our Wines - 2002 "Cristina Selection" Pinot Noir</a>
<a href="don_miguel_vineyard_chardonnay.php">Our Wines - 2001 Don Miguel Vineyard Chardonnay</a>
<a href="chardonnay_dobles_lias.php">Our Wines - 2002 Chardonnay "Dobles Lias"</a>
<a href="club_marimar.php">Club Marimar - Club Marimar</a>
<a href="join_now.php">Club Marimar - Join Now</a>
<a href="visit_the_winery.php">Visit The Winery</a>
<a href="country_kitchen.php">Marimar Cookbooks - Catalan Country Kitchen</a>
<a href="spanish_table.php">Marimar Cookbooks - Spanish Table</a>
<a href="spanish_table.php">Marimar Cookbooks - Marimar's Favorite Catalan Menu</a>
<a href="news_and_events.php">Vineyards News</a>
<a href="events.php">Upcoming Events</a>
<a href="us_distributor_list.php">Find OUR Wines - US Distributor List</a>
<a href="where_to_find_our_wines.php">Find OUR Wines - Where To Find Our Wines</a>
<a href="wine_trade.php">Wine Trade</a>
<a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a>
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