In the 1910’s, Isabelino Marichal, a descendant of immigrants from the Canary Islands, settled in the Etcheverría Region, starting the first vineyards of the Tannat variety, called Harriague in those times.
After marrying Filomena Juana Lugano, four children were born: Lorenza, Francisco, Ezequiel and Juan Máximo.
In 1938, they set up a small winery composed of underground tanks in a cave in order to achieve the best conditions for winemaking. Since then, the Marichal family has struggled to obtain the highest quality in elaborating, ageing and bottling their wines.
Ever since their winery was born, the Marichal family showed their professional orientation, seeking the counseling of oenologists, which is a distinguishing feature and a characteristic of its profile.
In 1948, Juan Máximo married María Teresa Gallo Tonelli, affectionately called “Teresita”, who would help her husband with the vineyard and the winery chores. Not only did she share everyday work with the staff of the winery, she would also prepare breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner for them.
They soon had three children: Juan Carlos, Reina and Susana. As their family grew bigger, Juan Máximo increased the number of vineyards, in his search for the better adaptation of the vines to the soil and therefore improving production.
In 1975 Juan Carlos married Lidia Santos, who also belonged to a family of vine growers. Together, they strived to perpetuate their family’s project, starting the process of improvement of the vineyards and the winery, aiming at a promising future in the production of high quality fine wines.

Today, their two sons Juan Andrés and Alejandro, professionals in the area of Oenology and Viticulture, together with their parents, have assumed the challenge of projecting the product of their land and their family tradition to the world, coping with the exigencies of nowadays’ technical advances in the field. Thus, they have succeeded in joining the emerging industry of winemaking in the countries of the New World of Wine.