September sixteenth – Santa Maria, CA – Miller Household Wine Firm is honored to announce Nicholas Miller’s nomination for ‘Wine Government of the 12 months’ in Wine Fanatic’s 2022 Wine Star Awards.
Annually, the editors of Wine Fanatic honor the folks, firms and areas that are making excellent achievements within the wine and beverage world. Nominees in 15 distinct classes are chosen from across the world, acknowledged for his or her imaginative and prescient, ingenuity and memorable contributions to the {industry}. As a part of the 2022 Wine Star Awards, Miller Household Wine Firm’s personal Nicholas Miller has been nominated within the award class of ‘Wine Government of the 12 months.’
As Chief Gross sales & Advertising and marketing Officer & Government Vice President for Miller Household Wine Co., Miller has introduced innovation, progress and strategic planning to his household’s multigenerational enterprise, collaboratively guiding the firm along with his household by latest acquisitions, unique partnerships and new model launches, whereas actively championing the Central Coast as a world-class wine area.
Miller has overseen the improvement of recent manufacturers underneath the Miller Household Wine Co. umbrella, together with optik, a assortment of wines made in partnership with esteemed winemaker Joey Tensley and the Miller household’s property vineyards; Hand on Coronary heart, that includes excessive high quality non-alcoholic wines developed in collaboration with Iron Chef Cat Cora, which is elevating the zero-ABV wine area; and Reciprocity, a brand new label launching October 1st that includes wines solely sourced from the natural and sustainably-farmed French Camp Winery in Paso Robles. As well as, he and his brother, Marshall Miller, Chief Working Officer, spearheaded Miller Household Wine Co.’s acquisition of BNA Wine Group’s assortment of wines, together with the fashionable Butternut model, thereby increasing the corporate’s portfolio and widened its market presence. Most not too long ago, Nicholas was additionally instrumental in ushering in a go-to-market partnership with the DTC-focused Scout & Cellar to launch their first wholesale providing, Scout Wild.
Miller has additionally been deeply concerned within the ideation and improvement of a brand-new hospitality heart on the grounds of Bien Nacido Winery, acknowledged as one of the famend vineyards in California and the supply of Bien Nacido Property wines. Set to debut in Spring 2023 – coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Bien Nacido Winery – The Gatehouse at Bien Nacido will open Bien Nacido to the general public for the primary time, permitting visitors to expertise this historic property and its famend wines like by no means earlier than.
In addition to his management inside the Miller Household Wine Co. group, Miller can be acknowledged for his ongoing management within the Central Coast and broader California wine communities, the place he at present serves as a board member for the Santa Barbara Vintners Affiliation and for The Wine Institute. Miller can be a part of the California Agricultural Management Program, served as Director of the California Affiliation of Winegrape Growers (CAWG), a place he held for eight years, and was named a Wine Fanatic 40 Beneath 40 Tastemaker throughout its inaugural yr in 2013.
“It’s an unbelievable honor to even be thought of for a Wine Star Award,” says Miller. “Generations of my household have paved the best way within the agricultural area on the Central Coast, and it’s a privilege to be a part of the following generations main the household enterprise. From a younger age, my household instilled in me a way of satisfaction for what you do, and I’ve carried that mindset into all sides of my skilled and private life, all the time main with integrity and by no means being afraid to evolve in an effort to thrive. It’s a pleasure to commit my time and vitality to a enterprise I imagine in, and in a spot I imagine in. I firmly take into account Santa Barbara County to be among the many foremost areas for rising and producing high quality wine, and I’m honored to signify this area by this nomination.”
Winners of the Wine Star Awards might be introduced on November 3, 2022.
Miller Household Wine Firm
Miller Household Wine Firm is a division of the Thornhill Corporations – the industry-leading umbrella model of 1 of California’s premier winegrowing households, the Miller Household, who’ve been farming California’s Central Coast for 5 generations. Miller Household Wine Firm consists of the distinguished Bien Nacido and Solomon Hills Estates and acclaimed nationwide branded wine labels corresponding to Butternut, J. Wilkes, optik, Ballard Lane, Smashberry, Barrel Burner, Volunteer, Hand on Coronary heart and Reciprocity wines, in addition to manage label manufacturers for distinguished retailers throughout the U.S. and the French Camp winery in Paso Robles. For extra info on Miller Household Wine Firm, please go to www.millerfamilywinecompany.com.
