Education
University of Barcelona. University of Burgundy.
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Miguel Torres
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In 1957, he started his degree in Chemical Sciences at the University of Barcelona, two years later transferring to the University of Dijon (Bourgogne), where he specialised in oenology and viticulture. In 1962, he joined the family business, of which he is currently President and Managing Director. In 1982-1983 he extended his viticulture and oenology studies at the University of Montpellier (France), having taken a sabbatical year.
Torres has published various books about the world of wine.
His first book, Viñas y Vinos, (Vineyards and Wines) is currently in its fourth edition in Spanish, revised and updated by Plaza y Janes in 1993 and translated into Catalan, French, English, German, Norwegian, Finnish and Japanese. This first effort was followed by Vino español, un incierto futuro (Spanish Wine, an Uncertain Future) (1979). Los vinos de España (The Wines of Spain) (1984).
Guía Folio de los Vinos de España (Guide sheet to Spanish Wines) (1985). And Els Vins del Penedès (Wines of the Penedès) (1987).
Likewise he also edited Enciclopedia del Vino (Encyclopaedia of Wine) for the editorial Orbis. In 1996 the government of Chile awarded him the Bernardo O’Higgins Order, Grand Officier, in acknowledgement for services towards the improvement of relations between Chile and Spain, as well as contribution to vinicultural development in Chile.
In 2002 the magazine Decanter selected him as “Decanter Manitoba of the Year 2002”.
