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Many of you on here have posted looking for information o Montesquieu Wines....It is hard to find info that is current as they employ a reputation defender website to clean up / remove negative postings. I know this pertinant info for a fact... I have been in the wine biz for 6 years, trained here in NYC and UC Davis. I took a job at Montesquieu and was invariably disappointed with the products and sales methods; being that The wines are sold via 'cold call' in a carnival barker style. The training to work at Montesquieu is decidely NOT wine focused training. Instead, you are told to read the 'Secret', create a 'vision board of wealth' and sell based on targeting customers who exhibit an impulse buy mentality. The wines are not legit, they are created by purchased juice and unused lots and they put a large ticket price on the bottle. Once again, these are not small production-boutique wines from small family owned vineyards, but left over second-or more likely third label wines, with shiny labels trying to appeal to the nouveau riche. I resigned, as I am a wine pro, who cannot, in good conscious, sell a product that is fraudulent. Oh, one more thing. I was relatively successful, I made a sale a day,( you can expect to make a sale per 300 phone calls...and that's an amazing average as you are calling business people at their jobs and spend a majority of your time being hung up on by savvy ad-mins) but my wine sales were not because I was a trained wine pro, it was because I am very charismatic. I noticed that the second best so-called broker was a drug addict and knew nothing about wine at all....you are expected to drink all day, starting at 8:30am and for someone who loves fantastic wines, I had a hard time choking down a few of these subpar wines. The office managers were nice, if not disillusioned and they were not trained in wine at all, the office in New York is nice as well, but to reiterate, the wines are subpar and not sold by wine professionals. At the time of my departure, there were only 2 remaining 'brokers', one was the aforementioned drug addict....actually doing cocaine on the job, and another woman who knew her stuff and had vast food and wine experience but she popped Vicodin on a reguclar basis as she had a back injury from a car accident . The last I heard she ( the vicodin addict, not the coke-head) jumped ship based on the inethical products and sales methods. To sum up, this is a job for a person who is hard up as they pay you $500.00 a week for 6 months, you need not have any wine knowledge, and you don't have to pass a drug test, dress nicely or even have a professional demeanor.....If you are opportunistic and able to bullshit on the phone you will do ok.....Expect to make no more than 20,000.00 yearly. After 6 months, you work 100 percent on commission. Soooo, you do the math. You only sell by the case. The average weekly sale is less than $3,000.00. So, there you go, if you have no other recourse, take a job at Montesquieu, but keep interviewing in the meantime.

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I am doing some homework in regards to my dream of importing some very unique wines to the USA from Spain. Is there anyone who can offer information (including websites) on: 1. import laws for California - federal and state 2. where to look for transportation / transport issues 3. import licenses 4. books / publications on this matter 5. anything else?? Thanks for whatever information you can offer! I have looked over this site and seen some information that will be useful, but there really is so precious little out there in way of this type of information... I have exclusive rights for several wine producers for the USA, but i really have so much work to get to before bringing in the first shipments. Thanks, Andrew :wq

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Looking for an agent/broker/person w a license to assist with import of wine from southern Italy. Any takers??

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Recently joined your site as I am searching for a Cabernet I tasted recently called Creighton. It was excellent, but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone have any knowledge of this wine?

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I am representing a family-run winery in Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy that is looking to export their wine to the United States. Currently, we have no contacts with importers or distributors. Any advice on where to begin, or how to advertise? Thank you, Eleanor www.winekurtin.it

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Passed on from my father.. Trying to get a quote and a legit way to sell it.. Any suggestions?

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I am looking for a company to import my wines into the USA.

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Anybody buy wine from this company that is no better than a $14 bottle of liberty school?

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I came across a 1933 borghini porcelain wine decatur w/some wine still in it. The bottle is made of porcelain with a wire handle. The shape of the bottle looks like an old lantern. It is designed so that a candle can be placed in the middle of it, with the handle raised & a candle lit you could see at night. I guess that is what the purpose was. It has a carving at the top of a knight slaying a dragon. Any info is appreciated. >

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