Wine, It Starts with Family
Marita’s Vineyard is a family owned vineyard, located at the heart of Napa Valley, California. The delicate structure, bold fruitiness, and spicy elegance of their wine make it the pride of the Montes Family. This family has a long history of tradition, hard work, and love for this land.
Marita’s Vineyard began with a dream of a father and his two sons to own a vineyard and produce great wine. In 2001, this dream materialized from the work of Bulmaro with his father’s dedication, work ethics, expertise, and skills. Bulmaro embarked on his wine-making journey.
Today, Marita’s Vineyard puts into fruition Manuel Sr.’s dream of creating a phenomenal wine: the product of the highest quality based on hard work, experience, lifelong learning, and passion for perfection. Every single wine is treated like family: grown with love, attention, and positive energy.
The Team
Manuel Montes is the Vineyard Manager of Marita’s Vineyard. He was born and raised in Oaxaca, Mexico. In 1961 at the age of 21 he came to Napa, where his father and brother were living, and began working in the vineyards. For 20 years he worked closely with Elwood Mee, a local legend and grape grower who had achieved a good deal of notoriety as a water witcher.
In 2003, Manuel arrived to Marita’s Vineyard where he currently continues to show his love to every singe vine.
Kurt Niznik, Winemaker at Marita’s Vineyard was born to Mexican-American and Slovakian-Slovenian parents. He was raised in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and educated at Yale University He moved to California to pursue his winemaking dreams in 1997 and worked his first harvest at Acacia Winery in the Carneros region of Napa. After spending several years in the cellars of wineries in both Napa and Sonomacounties, Kurt enrolled in the Master’s degree program in Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis, dividing his time between hitting the books and racking the barrels for two years before returning to Napa to continue his learning at Luna Vineyard. There he served as enologist, then assistant winemaker before leaving to be the winemaker for San Juan Vineyard in Washington.
Kurt returned to Napa Valley to help start up the newly constructed Caldwell Winery in 2005, working under the guidance of consultant winemaker Philippe Melka to craft the Caldwell wines and running a custom crush operation for several clients using the Caldwell cave space. Today, Kurt works as a freelance consultant winemaker for a select few clients in the Napa Valley.
wine club
The club provide three Wine Membership options. Shipments are sent twice a year in May and November. Marita’s Wine Club Members have priority of all new wine releases and library wines. To learn more or join t he club, visit: https://www.maritasvineyard.com/wine-club/