 Company Profile
Robert Bath Imports represents a select portfolio of high quality, artisan New Zealand wineries that receive personal attention to all facets of importing, selling and marketing their wine in the United States.
Our mission at Robert Bath Imports is to find small producers that represent the essence of each of the top growing regions in New Zealand. This requires extensive research, tasting and personal trips to New Zealand. As a result, however, we have discovered properties that are below the radar and definitely on their way to greatness. Robert Bath returns to New Zealand regularly in search of these properties .
So what differentiates Robert Bath Imports from other importers of New Zealand wine?
- A widely recognized, credentialed principal – Robert Bath – One of only 60 Master Sommeliers in the United States and 110 in the world; faculty teacher at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone and recognized wine industry consultant.
- An unparalleled knowledge of fine wine.
- A first hand, detailed knowledge of the wine regions and wines of New Zealand.
- A focused, carefully selected portfolio of artisan wineries which produce small quantities of high quality, varietal wines from New Zealand’s premier grape growing regions that meet key price points in the US marketplace.
- Twenty years of experience in the selling and marketing of fine wine in the United States by Robert and Julie Bath with high profile operations that include Shafer Vineyards, Dalla Valle Vineyards, Frog’s Leap Winery, Seagram Classics Wine Company, The French Laundry, The Sardine Factory and Hyatt Hotels.
- Ongoing / personal contact with each property in the portfolio that includes regular visits to New Zealand
- All partner wineries acknowledge their responsibility to the environment and practice environmentally sensitive farming techniques.
- All wines are shipped in refrigerated containers from New Zealand, stored in the US under temperature control and shipped to distributors in the United States in refrigerated trucks.
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