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IMPORTER VINEYARD BRANDS
QUIETLY BUILDS A BLOCKBUSTER
PORTFOLIO OF ICONIC WINERIES
by Courtney Scheissel / photos by Doug Young
Curate
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The Vineyard Brands portfolio offers wines of the best quality
and value from the most acclaimed wine regions on earth.
enri Gouges. Champagne Salon.
Château de Beaucastel. These
are industry icons known by
emerging and established wine
professionals alike, yet the name
of the company responsible for
introducing these wineries to
the U.S. market—along with about 75 more—might
evade the tip of many sommeliers' tongues.
Vineyard Brands, a national wine importer based
in Birmingham, Alabama, features some of the world's
most prominent family-owned wineries in its port
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folio. The company itself, however, has managed to
y under the radar. Now ve years into his tenure
as President and CEO of Vineyard Brands, Gregory
Doody wants members of the industry to familiarize
themselves with this collection of prestigious produc
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ers, believing that the whole of Vineyard Brands is
greater than the sum of its parts. It's a name every
true enophile should know, as this low-key blockbust
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er is in it for the long haul.
