Viña Casa Marín

Gold Medal Sauvignon Blanc Cipreses Vineyard 2014

For the fourth time in a row Casa Marin goes home with a Gold Medal at the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon 2015, this year held this year in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. Over 50 panelists from more than 20 different nationalities tasted hundreds of Sauvignon Blancs! Again, our Cipreses Sauvignon Blanc 2014 one the gold medal.

Casa Marin’s History at Concours Mondial du ...

Casa Marín’s story began with its founder, owner and winemaker, María Luz Marín’s, dream. Nothing better describes this winery than the story of a woman who fought to create a unique winery with fine, exclusive wines. In 2000, against advice from colleagues and experts, she decided to establish her winery in Lo Abarca, a small town in the San Antonio Valley.

Despite warnings about problems with location, the cool-climate and people’s d...

Viña Casa Marín is located in a privileged and unique terroir but one that can seem adverse. The town of Lo Abarca is just 4 kms. from the Pacific Ocean and is covered by a constant fog during the summer and winter months. It’s also a very windy area with cold temperatures during the grape growth and ripening period. However, these conditions make the vines produced a superior quality fruit than other valleys with higher temperatures and with ...

Our winemaking facility provides us with the required conditions so the wine displays its best qualities naturally, without correcting their acidity. The process begins with the terroir selection. Currently, the winery has 50 hectares of vineyards divided into 38 different blocks. All of the grapes are harvested by hand, when their perfectly ripe. Because of the great diversity of terroir and grape varieties in a cool climate, the harvest begi...

Viña Casa Marín – its workers and family – seek to work with the environment in a natural and harmonious way. This is why the winery is constantly searching for new ways to be more efficient in its use of water and energy in addition to caring for the environment so that it will become more sustainable each day.

Sustainability is not a new topic. In fact, it began together with María Luz Marín’s project of planting vines near the Pacif...