He was Honorary Chair for the 2003 Detroit Wine Auction as well as the 2007 Tres Bonne Année auction in Pennsylvania.īill is also very active in the business community, with memberships in The Economic Club of Chicago and The Commercial Club of Chicago. Current memberships include Commanderie de Bordeaux, Confrerie des Tastevin, and The Renaissance Club. Terlato Wine Group Estates and Vineyards include Rutherford Hill Winery (Napa Valley), Chimney Rock Winery (Stags Leap District, Napa Valley) Sanford Winery and Vineyards (Santa Rita Hills, Santa Barbara) Terlato Family Vineyards (Colli Orientali dei Friuli, Italy, Napa, Sonoma) EPISODE (Napa Valley) Klipsun Vineyard (Red Mountain WA) and the iconic Sanford and Benedict Vineyard, the first vineyard in Santa Barbara to be planted to Pinot Noir in 1971.īill is involved in many organizations dedicated to the knowledge and appreciation of fine wine. Under Terlato’s leadership, more investments in winemaking and vineyards followed. His family, now four generations in the wine business, has achieved acclaim at every aspect of the wine business - like retailers, distributors, importers, marketers, winery owners, and vineyard developers. In 2002, he led the family’s decision to sell its five Illinois distributorships, and focus all of its resources on building Terlato Wine Group (TWG), and investing in fine wine production around the world. In 1996, with the purchase of Napa Valley’s Rutherford Hill Winery, the family completed the circle and became producers. As President, Terlato made the strategic decision to move into wine production and vineyard management. In 1994 he was appointed President of the company. Terlato now represents acclaimed family-owned premium wine producers from California, Italy, France, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, fostering powerful brands. Today, due in large part to his vision and dynamic leadership, Terlato Wines has a leading market share of wines $20 and up sold in the U.S.īuilding on a tradition of excellence his father and grandfathers established more than 80 years ago, Bill Terlato has expanded the company’s luxury portfolio far beyond its original core business of importing fine Italian wines. “Bill” Terlato continues to blaze new trails through innovation, reaffirming his family’s position as a premier importer, marketer, and vintner of luxury wine in the United States. Each of these wineries helps to embody the guiding principle that Tony lived throughout his career: put quality first.Ĭhief Executive Officer of Terlato Wine Group and Terlato Wines since 2008, William A. Shortly after, the family expanded on Tony’s vision with the purchase of the Sanford Winery in the Santa Rita Hills and the Chimney Rock Winery in Napa. Throughout his career and while building these friendships, Tony dreamed of someday becoming a vintner and winegrower, and in 1996, that he realized his dream with the purchase of Rutherford Hill Winery in Napa. They found that the principles of these like-minded families reflected the principles that Tony and his family had embraced: a commitment to quality, passion, and good old-fashioned hard work. Over the course of the next 60 years, Tony and his sons built friendships and partnerships with some of the wine world’s most prominent winemaking families. His explorations and curiosity inspired him to bring the finest wines in the world to American wine consumer and their tables. At a time when most American wine consumers were drinking “red” or “white” wines from a jug, Tony was bringing the greatest Burgundies and Bordeaux wines to his wine customers in Chicago. Here he was exposed to and began learning about wines from the world’s great winemaking regions and wine-making families one region and one family at a time. Tony’s true passion and appreciation for fine wine began while working in his father’s wine and spirits store in 1955. Growing up in an Italian American family, food, and wine together with family was a regular part of life. Terlato has been a key participant in leading the growth and evolution of the fine wine industry over the course of the past half-century.
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