Custom labels from Northwest Cellars


Northwest Cellars (Portland, Oregon) offers uniquely blended wines and custom labels to customers around the world. Blended from wines from top wineries in the Pacific Northwest, Northwest Cellar wines have become a popular choice for custom labels, commemorative gifts, and special promotions, as well as for sale under the Northwest Cellars label. The company's wines have earned many awards and rave reviews from the wine press. For example, the company's 2005 Merlot just won First Place Overall (out of 613 wines) in the Seattle Wine Awards, and its 2005 Intrigue a Vintner's Honor award (as well as 90 points from Wine and Spirits magazine).

NW wines: A growing reputation


The Pacific Northwest has a latitude the same as the famous French wine growing regions. The moderate climate of the West Coast, plus cool nights and rich soils, let the NW wine-growing region produce some of the world's best wines. Washington and Oregon are the US's largest wine-producing states after California. Washington State has nearly 500 wineries and over 30,000 acres of wine grapes; Oregon, over 350 wineries on over 17,000 acres. In particular, Oregon is noted for varieties including Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Syrah; Washington for Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and other reds, plus several whites.


The two states have many distinct wine-growing regions:
 Washington: Yakima Valley, Walla Walla Valley, Columbia Valley, Puget Sound, Red Mountain, Columbia Gorge, Horse Heaven Hills, Wahluke Slope, and Rattlesnake Hills. Oregon: Willamette Valley, Chehalum Mountains, Yamhill-Carlton District, Ribbon Rodge, Dundee Hills, McMinnville, Eola-Amity Hills, Umpqua Valley, Red Hills Douglas County, Rogue Valley, Applegate Valley, Southern Oregon, Snake River Valley.


(Sources: Washington Wine Commission, Oregon Wine Board
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Business opportunity

Northwest Cellars can serve clients in any of several ways:


• The Northwest Cellars label is available to importers.

• Northwest Cellars can offer custom private label wines of exceptional quality and value. Choose from among many wines, and create a label together with Nortwest Cellars.
• Wine importers can work with Northwest Cellars to create unique new labels for consumer markets.


The process of creating a custom wine to order takes under three weeks (before shipping).
 Northwest Cellars sells wine by the case (12 bottles).



Suggested outlets
 for custom labels

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Custom store brands

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Original in-house restaurant or hotel brands

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Original brands for co-ops or mail-order services

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Unique corporate gifts

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Commemorative events




About NW Cellars


Northwest Cellars has been offering custom blends and labels since 2004. Founder Bob Delf is a wine enthusiast and expert, whose family has been importing and distributing wine in North America for over 20 years.



More Information


• Northwest Cellars site: http://www.northwestcellars.com/
• Northwest Cellars press: http://www.northwestcellars.com/pages/news.html
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Press reviews: http://www.northwestcellars.com/pages/pressreviews.html

• About: http://www.northwestcellars.com/pages/about.html

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Product Information

Santiago Queirolo's vineyards make full use of the dry, warm climate in the south of Peru. Its Cañete Valley vineyards near the coast, with sandy and stony soil, and fresh winters, are mainly oriented to demi-sweet and sweet wines (varieties: Sauvignon Blanc, Tannat). The vineyards in ICA Valley at the foot of the Andes mountains, with Franc and piedmont soils, and cold winter nights, are mainly oriented to varietals and reserve wines (varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Malbec, Chardonnay, Merlot, Petit Verdot).

Santiago Queirolo produces extremely popular award-winning wines. According to a 2007 poll by CCR International, Santiago Queirolo is by far the most popular wine brand in Peru, far outpacing competitors such as Tabernero, Tacama, Viña Ocucaje, Concha y Toro, Vista Alegre, E. Copello, Casillero del Diablo, and Navarro Correas.

In addition Queirolo  produces Peru's most popular line of pisco, a wine brandy that is the national drink of Peru. (Survey by El Comercio, 2006).

Awards

Awards for Santiago Queirolo products include:

• Challenge du Vin
Burdeos, France: 
Medallas de Oro y Plata

• Alambique de Oro
 Caracas, Venezuela: 
Medallas de Oro y Plata
• Citadelles du Vin
Burdeos, France: 
Trofeo Excelencia
• Peruvian 
Best Spirits, Peru

In addition, Santiago Queirolo's Don Santiago Mosto Verde pisco and Acholado Pisco were used in the winning cocktail at the Madrid Fusion Author Cocktails Competition in 2006.

About Santiago Queirolo

In 1880, the Queirolo family from Genoa, Italy founded Santiago Queirolo in Pueblo Libre, a traditional quarter of Lima known for its history and its role in Peru's battles for independence. Third-generation winemaker Jorge Queirolo maintains the high quality of the vintner's wines and piscos.

From 2000 the company has undertaken a major renewal and expansion process that increased its Cañete Valley and ICA Valley vineyards from 100 Ha to more than 300 Ha, deployed modern technology to raise production capacity from 500 thousand liters to more than 4 million liters per year, and modernized administrative and operation systems.

International Markets

• North America: United States
• Center and South América: 
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, 
Rep. Dominicana
• Europe
: Germany, Spain, Greece, Switzerland
• Asia
: Japan (Currently pisco only)
• Oceanía: 
Australia

More Information

• Santiago Queirolo site: http://www.santiagoqueirolo.com/