Subject: Orangewood Wines Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 13 - October 7th, 2007
Sent: Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:19 PM
Introduction
October is here, the weather has cooled down, and I’m trying
to remember which drawer has my sweaters in it. It may be important soon.
Box Score
New
Restaurants: 1
New Retail/Wine Bar
Outlets: 3
New Sales
People:
1
Contents
New
Restaurant
New
Wine Store/Wine Bar
New
Sales Person
Trade
Events
Rambling
New Restaurant
Furio
7210 East
Second Street
Scottsdale, AZ
85201
(480) 945-6600
New
Wine Store/Wine Bar Outlets
Pat and Mike’s
860 East American
Avenue
Oracle, AZ
85623
(520) 896-2424
The Winery
4250 West Anthem
Way, Store 765
Anthem, AZ
85086
(623) 465-7457
Wine
Styles
8279 West Lake Pleasant Pkwy, Suite # 104
Peoria, AZ
85382
(623) 561-9463
New Sales
Person
Janine Buchal
At 11 years old I went to King
Edward’s Five Ways
School in Birmingham. One of my classes was
French, and the reading book featured Janine and some boy whose name I do not
recall. It was probably Henri or Jean-Paul or whomever. I had never
met a Janine, so it is a delight to welcome our new salesperson, recently
transplanted from Minnesota to the Phoenix area, just to
solve my problem. Seriously though, Janine has a background in marketing
and sales, and worked at several wine stores in the St Paul
area prior to moving to Phoenix.
She is a wine and food/wine pairing enthusiast and has started calling on
accounts in the East Valley: Chandler,
Fountain Hills, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Mesa,
etc. Please call me if you need help and have not seen her yet.
Trade Events
This year we have had two trade
events: a Sierra Foothills event at the beginning of February at which we
showcased wineries from that region; and the recent High 5 trade event, which
we did in combination with other small distributors, at which we focused on
wineries that have been under-represented in Arizona. For 2008 I am thinking of
expanding the early February event to allow any of the wineries we represent to
come along for both the trade and the public tastings; and, also, continuing
with the multi-distributor tasting in September for those wineries that could
not make the February event or just wanted to get to Arizona again. For
both events we would have a Tucson
tasting, as well, and an evening for the winery and sales people to get
together. I am looking for feedback from our customers and our
wineries on timing and direction. It is not clear to me what the best
answers are, but I hope to fumble my way with your help.
Rambling
In the last edition I was recovering from a vocal chord
operation and rapidly approaching a trade tasting. My voice came back to
normal very quickly, though it seems to get tired easily. For the trade
tasting I relied on our sales people and thank them very much for their
sterling efforts. I stayed in the background and spoke softly. As a
result, our sales people did not spend as much time as we all would have liked
getting to know the representatives from the wineries. This is something
for us to work on for future events.
The rambler rambles on…
From
all of us at Orangewood Wines,
Richard
(newsletter writer) and Laurie (editor)
Orangewood
Wines