“O. Fournier’s visionary José Manuel Ortega
Gil-Fournier is an interesting worldly entrepreneur,
born in Spain, educated at Notre Dame in USA,
worked as an investment banker with Goldman
Sachs in London and Banco Santander in Madrid…
then put up all his savings, mortgaged his house
and took out five personal loans and headed to
Argentina to embark on this new and innovative
venture… O. Fournier.
To give you an idea of the magnitude of this young
business, the winery has the capacity of 1.2 million
liters of juice in stainless, oak and cement vats at
any one time, and has a massive underground cellar
holding up to 2,800 oak barrels of aging wine (see
magnificent cellar photo next page). O. Fournier is
now producing one million bottles of wine annually
and exporting to 42 countries. Plus, expanding the
vineyard and winery operations to Chile and Spain.”
O. Fournier’s visionary
