How Torres mastered reinvention
Taking an academic approach to mass wine production has put Miguel Torres firmly on course to join the fine wine category
In 1982, aged 41, Miguel A Torres, heir to the successful Spanish Bodegas Torres wine business, decided to go back to college to study the advanced oenology course at the University of Montpellier. Miguel Torres was already a brilliant winemaker, having graduated as an oenologist from Burgundy’s University of Dijon in 1962.
Why was his such an interesting move? Well, a key project with which he was concerned in his family’s winery, a ...