Current
All Global Wine Hub operations are managed through our location at Bangkok, Thailand and the U.S. fully licensed Global Wine Company, for sourcing and importing wines, especially in the Southeast Asia market.
Global is well positioned to service the growing wine markets.
Resources for bottled wine and wine in bulk from Spain, Italy, France, South America and United States give Global Wines the high quality and cost efficient wine supplies necessary to work as a Global Wine Hub with Global Wine Sourcing to the growing Southeast Asia wine market.
History
The Global Wines concept and company was founded in 1989 by Michael Fallow, a University of California, Davis trained winemaker, class of 1975, and wine entrepreneur who worked as winemaker and in the vineyards of Napa Valley California for 15 years before expanding his business scope.
Global Wines succeeded Michael Fallow's original and founding company known as Artisan Wines. Artisan Wines began in 1983, a visionary winemaking and marketing company started by Michael Fallow and built by the team of Michael Fallow and Jeffrey Caldeway, a graphic designer specializing in wine labels and with a gift for marketing.
The early conception of Artisan Wine Company was a three tiered menu of California wines under the labels of Michael's, Cruvinet and Ultravino plus an import brand of small producer European wines marketed under Artisan's own label, Cru Artisan.
The goal and philosophy of Artisan Wines has always been to focus on the smaller and artisanal production of wine with a belief that in winemaking smaller is generally better as a means to the expression of the original grapes and the benefits that come with personal and individualized care.
Artisan and Global have always strived to provide exceptional wines at each price level.
Artisan Wine Company was incorporated into Global Wine Company in 1989 as the California negociant division. Fulfilling the larger pursuit of a passion for European wines brought Michael Fallow to New York in 1990 where he worked with Tricana Imports, an importer and distributor of small, high quality wine producers of Italy, France and Spain. Fallow created sales and distribution in the key markets of Manhattan and Hamptons, Long Island while expanding his understanding in the complexities of Italian wine and culture when visiting Tricana's wineries abroad.
Other Global Wines enterprises in this period included creation of a wine distributorship in the West Indies, the Nevis Island Wine Company, with Michael Todd who later founded the wine publication Grapezine; consulting on wine growing and production on the Hawaiian island of Lanai; a marketing collaboration with the firm of Wilson-Daniels, promoting the Madiera island wines of producer Henriques & Henriques; travel and in country meetings on the feasibility of developing the wine market for US brands in Cuba.
Global Wines began operating under a new partnership in 1997 with Gavin Gracey, a food and beverage specialist who migrated to Napa Valley from South Africa in 1975, reinvigorating the Artisan Wine Company and producing California wines under the Harvest and CruVinet labels.
Fallow also served as consulting and flying winemaker for John Sambrooke's Canadian Black Prince Winery venture in the new Ontario growing region of Prince Edward County.
In 2000 Michael Fallow and wine partner Gavin Gracey joined with wine importer Sam Levitas of Tricana Imports to expand the distribution of Tricana's Italian, French and Spanish wines in northern California. The well appointed portfolio of wines included European wines plus a small representation of California, Oregon and Virginia wines.
In late 2004 Tricana Imports assumed the distribution operation begun by Global Wines, continuing operations under the new title of Global-Tricana Wines.
In 2004 Michael Fallow departed the US exploring the emerging wine export market of Argentina and in 2005 paired with working partner Federico Bensadon of Mendoza, Argentina, as B&F Wine Negociants - Argentina. Global Wine Company began importing the B&F Argentina wines to the US and Canada.
In 2009 Fallow spent a year living in Spain studying the Spanish and French wine markets before making inroads to the China market and the growing Asia wine market in 2010.
After study and travel in the Chinese wine market beginning in 2009, a new company Global Wine East Asia Company was registered at Hong Kong in June of 2010 to manage importing and distribution at Hong Kong and the mainland China market. An office was setup with a manager at Guangzhou, China to develop mainland sales.
To further serve the mainland China market Global Wine East Asia Company beginning August 2011 partnered with a Chinese wine company at Guangzhou.
The new partnership operated in mainland China under the name Deming Zhuang Trade Development Co., Ltd / Global Wines with capabilities for marketing and sales in mainland China.
With temperature controlled warehouses at Hong Kong and at mainland Guangzhou's Huangpu port area Global was able to service both growing wine markets.
Over 8 years of research, marketing and importing wines from Europe, South America and United States to Hong Kong and mainland China have given Global the experience necessary to work as a Global Wine Hub with Global Wine Sourcing to the growing Southeast Asia wine market.
From the Artisan days of Fallow and Gracey
Global Wine Company
A Selective Wine Company
Global Wine East Asia - Asian Wine Hub
Bangkok, Thailand
+66 (0)849129517
Sales and Marketing Office US
located in San Francisco
548 Market Street, Ste 23210
San Francisco, California 94104
Telephone: 415-346-3792
US Wine Licenses
located in St. Helena, Napa Valley
1216 Suite C Church Street
St. Helena, California 94574
Telephone: 415-346-3792
The Global Wine Family
Michael Fallow
Managing the Asian Wine Hub and Global Wine Sourcing
artisan.globalwines@gmail.com
Federico Bensadon
Argentina Wine Sourcing
artisan.globalwines@gmail.com
Matthew Kaine
Spanish & French Wine Sourcing
artisan.globalwines@gmail.com
Gavin Gracey - California Wine Sourcing
artisan.globalwines@gmail.com
Sam Levitas - Italian Wine Sourcing
Importer
artisan.globalwines@gmail.com
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