WHAT IS TOFINO?

Tofino Wines was named after Admiral Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel y Wanderiales, a Spanish cartographer who hailed from Cádiz, Spain (in the same province as Jerez de la Frontera, the center of Sherry production), and taught cartography to two young Spanish commanders in particular, Galiano and Valdés. They were among the first explorers to circumnavigate Vancouver Island and map the coastline of British Columbia, discovering and naming Tofino Inlet in 1792. The wild, coastal town of Tofino (named after Tofino Inlet in 1934) on Vancouver Island, where co-owner Mark Nevin spent time camping on the beach and surfing as a teenager growing up in Vancouver, B.C., and where he and his wife/business partner April have traveled together several times, also served as inspiration for the name Tofino Wines.