Engineer Jorge Romero – Vineyard Manager of Finca Río Seco
Born in Mendoza but living in Cafayate for the past 3 ½ years, during which time he has worked in our winery. He is the vineyard manager of Finca Río Seco since 2006. He began in the world of wine in high school, where he chose to focus on agriculture and winemaking.
He has been involved with wineries since 1996 when he did his first stage, with Bodegas Lopez. He graduated from the School of Agrarian Sciences of the National University of Cuyo. During his university years he also did internships at Bodega Viniterra and Bodega Los Haroldos and did research on vine management in the INTA of Luján de Cuyo.
“I believe that Cafayate is a region with great vitivinicultural potential and with an extremely promising future. In addition to having a Torrontés that is unique in Argentina and the world, it also has excellent red wines, whose primary characteristics are their expressiveness, concentration and mature tannins, brought about by the wide thermic amplitude that characterizes high-altitude valleys.”
Engineer Cecilia Echevarría – Vineyard Manager of Finca El Retiro
Born in Mendoza, she moved to Cafayate two years ago, and since then has worked with us as vineyard manager of Finca El Retiro. Her relationship with the wine industry began as a university student in the School of Agrarian Sciences of the National University of Cuyo. She also has a Técnico Viticoltura et Enología degree from the Univesitá delgi Studi in Udine, Italy.
In 2002 she worked at the Villa Russiz winery located in Friuli, Venezia Giulia, where she was the vineyard assistant during the entire harvest that year. She also worked in 2002 and 2003 in Mendoza with Familia Barberis, where she managed the control of third part vineyards and client services.
“I’m convinced that Cafayate is a valley created for vitviniculture, where nature is at once powerful, expressive and friendly, where the vineyard workers, dedicated for generations to the careful cultivation of the vine, learn and teach, achieving a blend of the ancestral and the vanguard, where little by little technology is only used where necessary to express the natural results of this chosen land.”
