January twelfth – Los Olivos, CA — Santa Barbara County’s family-owned Fess Parker Vineyard is happy to announce that Spencer Shull, grandson of vineyard founder, Fess Parker, has taken on the twin position of Export Gross sales Supervisor and Household Ambassador.
Representing a part of the third technology behind Fess Parker Vineyard, Shull has been concerned in all points of the household’s beverage portfolio over time, together with earlier roles as Gross sales Supervisor for Third Window Brewing Firm in Santa Barbara and Colorado State Supervisor for Fess Parker Vineyard whereas dwelling in Denver, Colorado.
A graduate of the College of Colorado, Shull began his profession in fantastic wine and beer gross sales on the iconic Boulder Liquor Mart throughout school, then went on to work as a gross sales lead at Pleasure Wine & Spirits, a fantastic wine store in Denver. Along with his retail and gross sales expertise, Shull labored Fess Parker Vineyard’s 2014 and 2022 harvests within the cellar below the course of winemakers Blair Fox and Tyler Eck.
Since 2018, Shull has traveled extensively round america representing the Parker household at commerce and shopper occasions, enhancing distributor relationships and increasing consumer-facing actions in markets all through the nation – a facet of the job he’ll proceed inside his position as Household Ambassador. With the addition of his new place as Export Gross sales Supervisor, Shull’s duties can even embrace managing the importer relationships for the vineyard’s rising export enterprise, supporting key accounts and enhancing model improvement for Fess Parker Vineyard.
“I’ve actually loved representing the household because the official Ambassador over the previous few years, touring to numerous markets to share every part about our household owned and operated enterprise,” says Shull. “Shifting ahead, I’m trying ahead to increasing into this new twin position, which is able to enable me to proceed to share what makes Fess Parker Vineyard so particular and distinctive, whereas additionally tapping into my previous gross sales expertise to handle key importer relationships as we develop our export enterprise.”
About The Fess Parker Household Portfolio
Because the late Nineteen Eighties, Fess Parker and his household have cultivated a world-class hospitality portfolio across the magnificence and bounty of Santa Barbara County. The Fess Parker Vineyard is targeted on the grape varieties finest suited to the area’s distinctive rising circumstances – Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Rhone wines – with its vintages constantly incomes 90+ level rankings from high critics all over the world. Along with a waterfront resort in Santa Barbara, the household honors their late patriarch’s legacy by internet hosting company on the Fess Parker Wine Nation Inn in Los Olivos, the guts of Santa Barbara wine nation. For extra info, please go to www.fessparker.com.
