Algodon Wine Sales, Our Neighbors, and a Gold Medal!

Our Chicago area wines sales are looking good. This week I spoke to our Midwest distributer, Jomada Imports, and was told that we’re selling on average 150 cases (12 pack) of Algodon wines on a monthly basis…that’s 1,800 bottles a month. That’s a nice start considering that Algodon Wines are new to the US market and its consumers. Keep up the good work Jomada!

Our neighbor next door to the Algodon Mansion recently finished some exterior construction. It looks good and is a big improvement on what was there previously.

Big olive oil news! Diego Coll Benegas, Algodon Wine Estates’ Director of Project Development, Tourism & Hospitality, just emailed me to say that Algodon Olive Oil won the gold medal in a national competition hosted in Buenos Aires this week. Our gold medal was for the “blended” category. That’s exciting news. I’ve had the olive oil myself, and I have to say that a gold medal comes as no surprise to me. I guess we’ll have to reprint our olive oil’s bottle labels to include: “Argentine judges agree: Algodon Extra Virgin Olive Oil is the best!” We will be serving Algodon Olive Oil at Algodon Mansion.

--Scott Mathis