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History & Family
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The Torres family surname has been
linked with wine for more than three centuries, during which time
our ancestors have worked vineyards in Penedès, a land with
a millenarian tradition of wine.
Our family has been dedicated to working the land, passing on their
commitment from generation to generation.
Some years went by before we actually began trading with our wine.
Our commercial activity began in 1800, with a horse-drawn carriage
used to transport our wine in wooden barrels.
It was when Jaime
Torres Vendrell returned from Cuba that the Torres family began
its domestic and international expansion. Jaime Torres, after more
than 10 years of hard work and saving, arrived at the idea of exporting
his wines to countries such as Cuba, Argentina and Puerto Rico.
In 1870, Jaime and Miguel
Torres Vendrell form the Torres & Company association, and
work begins on building the first winery in Vilafranca del Penedès.
Our wines gained great prestige wherever the intrepid Catalan sea
captains of Sitges and Vilanova transported them. Cartagena de Indias,
Santiago de Cuba, Veracruz, Bremen, Hamburg and Saint Petersburg were
some of these destinations. These wines won prizes in Vienna, Philadelphia
and Paris.
The dynamic spirit of the Torres family made them dedicate their efforts
not just to making wine, but also to distilling brandies. Right from
the beginning, distilling brandy played an important role and Juan
Torres Casals became a great promoter of brandy in 1928.
Torres's world-wide expansion is due to the tenacity and boldness
of Miguel Torres
Carbó. He never forgot his beginnings, when he would be
seen carrying bottles of his wine in his arms and offering them to
the best restaurants and merchants of his era.
The Spanish Civil War created a big crisis at Torres. In 1939 our
winery was bombed. It took the determined efforts of Miguel Torres
Carbó, with the notable help of his wife, Doña Margarita,
to rebuild it following this disaster.
The Heirs of
Miguel Torres Carbó
Since then, the gains made by the Torres family throughout the world
have grown and become consolidated. In 1979 a winery was opened in
the Central Valley of Chile (Curicó), where a great range of
wines is made in a truly privileged land, totally free of the Phylloxera
blight, given that the whole country of Chile has never been affected
by it.
Ever since San Francisco became Marimar Torres's home in 1975 she
dreamed of having a vineyard in California. At the beginning of the
'80s her father agreed and, following years of searching, Russian
River / Green Valley, in Sonoma County, was selected. There she makes
elegant wines such as her Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Our family, generation after generation, has transmitted the secrets
of winemaking and love of the land. This tradition, allied with a
vision of the future, have turned Torres into a great exporting company
currently trading in more than 120 countries. |
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