Contact: Hugh Thacher

Address: 442 Tehama St.

City: San Francisco

State: CA

Zip: 94103

Phone: (415) 546-0484

Fax: (415) 243-0636

Membership: Trade

Date Joined: July 12, 2005

E-mail: hat@sfwe.com

Web Site: San Francisco Wine Exchange

Comments: The San Francisco Wine Exchange is a national marketer of California wines. It is a unique sales organization for many reasons. It is the only independent marketing organization that has survived for more than 30 years (SFWE was incorporated in 1976). Mergers, buy outs, acquisitions and the growth in volume of brands handled by independents have eliminated dozens of our competitors.

SFWE relies on very personal, long term relationships with clients who seek special attention from a small company. It is a challenging profession that requires the full attention, good luck and wits of SFWE's management, sales force and staff.

San Francisco Wine Exchange is the oldest independent national marketer of premium California wines in business today. The company has begun to import wines from New Zealand and Argentina. The firm specializes in bringing to market the wines of small-production, super-premium quality producers from the wine-growing regions of California, other domestic wine-growing areas, and select wine-producing regions throughout the world.