Carlos Hubner-Arteta Email and Phone Number

I love wine and I am fascinated by the business of wine.In the past 16 years I have explored almost every angle of the wine business: I have been a Distributor Sales Rep in Manhattan, managed a territory for a powerful Champagne supplier, worked as Sales Director at a winery in Napa, spent time at a Kleiner Perkins start up trying to "web-enable" the wine industry, brokered and imported wines from France, created brands that still exist today and recently as National Director of Spanish & South American wines for Winebow, I have traveled all over this country talking about Spanish and Argentine wines... observing how different we are as a wine consuming nation. Our wine business is changing: we are rapidly becoming the largest consumer of wine in the world and younger drinkers are leading the charge. Leading us away from mass-produced wines these new buyers seek wines with soul, a sense of place and prefer imports. However, our channels of distribution continue to merge and to head in the direction of big brands. We are at an impasse - the outcome will be interesting but demand usually wins.My goal is to reach these new import thirsty consumers with or without the roadblocks.Specialties: Fluent in Spanish, Italian & Englishconversant in French and German