Robert & Maritza Jacobson

Members Since 1995

Robert E. Jacobson, MD is a retired neurosurgeon and current managing partner of Trinity Healthcare Partners.

Maritza Jacobson is a graduate of University Miami and real estate agent with One Sotheby’s International Realty.

How long have you been Cellar Club members?
We have been Coral Gables residents for over 20 years and originally lived on the Biltmore Golf Course. We joined the Cellar Club at its inception!

Tell us about your wine collection. Do you have a preference for any particular varietal or region?
We love and collect California and Australian wines and we are definitely a RED household! Except for Champagne, which we serve at any time…

We enjoy introducing California Cult wines to our friends and have formed a group that exchanges wines at dinners.

Bob: I was first exposed to California wines in 1975 on a business trip prior to the famous “Tasting of 1976” in Paris, where California wines beat out French wines in a blind tasting.

Maritza: I was a white wine drinker until 20 years ago when a close friend in the south of France convinced me (over a very extended lunch) that I just wasn’t drinking the right — or enough — red wines. The rest is history.

What are some of your favorite travel destination when you want to “get away?”
We have second home in Telluride, Colorado, where we ski and enjoy attending the Telluride Wine Festival and the Telluride Film Festival. As we are also collectors of Cuban and Latin American art, we always visit galleries wherever we travel.

Are you involved with any charitable organizations?
We support the Voices For Children Foundation and Educate Tomorrow, nonprofit organizations which provide assistance for abused, neglected and foster-care children in Miami-Dade.

How has the Cellar Club enhanced your personal and professional life?
We often get together with our Cellar Club friends for dinners at the Biltmore, whether it’s on Gables Gallery Night…or any excuse to have a good time and enjoy each other’s company!

We would like to share this anonymous quote that captures our imagination:

“It is well to remember that there are four reasons for drinking wine:
Gathering of family and friends, one’s present or future thirst,
the excellence of the wine, or any other reason!”