Delicato Names New Vice President of Sales.Business Editors and Food/Wine Writers NAPA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002 Delicato Family Vineyards has announced that Charles Spelman has joined the winery as Vice President, National Sales. Spelman's responsibilities include directing and managing the activities of the winery's national sales and distributor network. He will be headquartered in the Delicato executive office in the Napa Valley Napa Valley, Calif.: see under Napa. Napa Valley greatest wine-producing region of the United States. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2990] See : Wine . "We are pleased to have Chuck Spelman join our organization," said Eric Morham, Delicato Family Vineyards President and Chief Executive Officer. "He brings a wealth of experience that will make a significant difference to our national sales efforts and to our bottom line." Spelman has been involved in wine sales for more than 18 years. Most recently, he was Vice President, Sales, Northern Division, Robert Mondavi Robert Gerald Mondavi born May 18 1913 in Virginia, Minnesota, United States is a leading vineyard operator whose technical improvements and marketing strategies brought Wine Company where he was responsible for sales activities in some 14 states including New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New Jersey, New England and the Midwest. In this capacity he supervised a staff of 35 sales representatives and more than 50 Mondavi wholesalers. Spelman received a BS in Business and Marketing from Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. in 1988. In his spare time he enjoys tennis and a good game of chess. For more than 75 years, the Indelicato family has been growing fine wine grapes and assembling a portfolio of world-class estate vineyards. Today, Delicato harvests more than 10,000 acres of vineyard estates across the top regions of California. These range from the coastal cool of the legendary San Bernabe vineyard The San Bernabe vineyard is the center of a proposed American Viticultural Area in Monterey County, California. Located at the northern end of the San Lucas AVA it is currently the world's largest continuous vineyard.[1] References 1. in Monterey, one of California's oldest grape-growing regions, to the rolling foothills east of Lodi Lodi, city, Italy Lodi (lô`dē), city (1991 pop. 42,250), Lombardy, N Italy, on the Adda River, near Milan. It is an important dairy and light industrial center. . Delicato wine brands include Delicato Family Vineyards, Monterra, Delicato Monterey Vine Select and Encore by Monterra. |
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