Cumulus Wines Welcomes Trellis Wine Group to their Sales and Marketing Team

Overland Park, Kansas- September 20, 2006- Cumulus Wines representing Rolling, Climbing and Philip Shaw cool climate wines from Orange, Australia has recently secured the national account on-premise expertise of Trellis Wine Group www.trelliswinegroup.com. Managing partners of the Trellis Wine Group, Mark Kerns and Mark Crisler have over 30 years of combined experience in the wine industry, and are excited to add the wines of internationally acclaimed Australian winemaker, Philip Shaw to their portfolio.

Veterans of the wine industry with impressive track records in sales and marketing, Mark Kerns hailed from Southcorp and Mark Crisler from the Robert Mondavi Winery. Together they will be working intimately with the entire Cumulus Wines sales and marketing team to enhance the winery’s client portfolio.

Mark Crisler said, "our goal is to help guide and grow cool, artisan, family-owned wineries into the on-premise national accounts channel. There is a large gap between the conglomerate wine companies and the family-owned wineries. Our company was created to bring those independent minded, family-owned wineries to national accounts, so that these restaurant and hotel companies would have more wine choices and greater creativity to shape their wine lists. We are committed to helping them build wine lists that better reflect their concepts’ individuality and the consumers that patronize them."

Cumulus Wines is a leading cool climate winery, sourcing fruit from its high altitude, single vineyard in Orange, 170 miles west of Sydney, Australia. A family owned company, Cumulus is majority owned by Keith and Ros Lambert. Together with Philip Shaw and CEO Jeffrey Wilkinson, the Cumulus wine team has created 100% estate wines from their single high altitude vineyard located in both the Orange and Central Ranges regions. www.cumuluswines.com

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