LAFFORT®: an international presence

LAFFORT® ARGENTINA commenced operations at the beginning of 2002. The country’s economy was going through a rough patch, but that didn’t stop LAFFORT® from investing whole-heartedly in the Argentinian wine industry. To ensure the best possible opportunities for growth and development, LAFFORT® ARGENTINA set up their own distribution and warehouse, allowing them to offer Argentinian winemakers all the technical support they needed.

The subsidiary is based in Lujan de Cuyo, in the Mendoza region, in one of the most beautiful vine-covered landscapes on earth. Here, the iconic Malbec and other varieties ripen gently under the watchful eye of the Andes. From the furthest southern territories of Neuquén and Rio Negro right up to the northern regions of Salta, Catamarca and Jujuy, LAFFORT® ARGENTINA applies a full range of skills, expertise and a keen sense of duty to become a strategic partner for Argentinian winemakers across the country.

They have blossomed under the aegis of Maria Eugenia Berducci (Managing Director), with the exceptional sales team Fernando Diaz, the administrative and logistics team, Paul Stocco (logistics and warehousing), Veronica Frack and Soledad Gutiérrez (Administration).

LAFFORT® CHILE opened its doors to business in the year 1996. We are fulfilling the needs of the chilean wine industry that has 140,000 hectars of vineyards with an average national wine production of 11 million hectoliters per year. The main office and warehouse relocated to the Paine-Metropolitan region in 2017. We supply all the wine production valleys from the north to the south of Chile.

The Chilean team is headed up by Claudio Cereghino, the Managing Director; and the Technical Director of South America is Fernando Cordova. Our Technical and Sales team consists of Carolina Fernandez, Orlando farina and Raul Rebolledo.

All of our Chilean team is here to help you!!!

IN 2000, the Y2K bug didn’t happen and LAFFORT® ITALY began to care the LAFFORT® Italian market.

Today is based in Tortona, a logistic hub strategically placed in northern Italy.

At the beginning of 2017 the growth of the market gave the impulse to relocate the main office and warehouse to a larger new location.

Nowadays Guido Parodi, the Italian Market Manager, with the technical & sales team composed by Antonio Grazietti, Simona Molinari, Mike Di Giuseppe, Loris Cazzanelli, Thomas Schirru, supported by Matteo Sbarato, Elisabetta Roccato, Silvia Dondi and Ciprian Cojocaru (logistic & accounting team),  are caring the LAFFORT® commercial network in Italy.

We are also always at full disposal to all our customers to provide the needed informations and support.

LAFFORT® NEW ZEALAND has been operating since 2003, we have a small but dedicated team of three people. Greg & Nicolas work from our warehouse in Auckland and Carolina from our warehouse in Marlborough, together we service the NZ wine industry from the Southern most vineyards to the far North.

LAFFORT® RSA opened its doors to business in 2000 and is proud to be fulfilling the needs of the South African Wine Industry for the past 17 years.

The main office and warehouse relocated to a new premise in the state of the art Zandwyk Business Park, just outside of Paarl in 2015. Paarl is situated in the heart of the South African Winelands, and is majestically bordered by the mountains of the Groot Drakenstein and Franschhoek ranges. There is another branch situated in Roberston district, 100 km away, where the lime-rich soils and Breede River valley makes the area well suited to winegrowing.

The South African team is headed up by Morne Kemp, the Managing Director. The Technical and Sales team consists of Ernst Kleynhans, Zara Conradie , Susan Erasmus and Bernard Mocke (Technical Manager).

Give us a call, send us a message, or find us on social media – the team is here to help!

LAFFORT® SPAIN began its activity in the early 1930s in the Spanish Basque Country. At the time, it was already a pioneer in the company’s international calling. It has been evolving and reinventing itself to answer the needs of a market in constant progression for over 80 years.

During all those decades and with the dedication of its employees and managing team, LAFFORT® SPAIN has adapted Bordeaux’s know-how to its own market needs and has completed it with local solutions that can thereafter be restituted within the LAFFORT® group (ESENCIA’s activity of developing and extracting aromas destined for spirits and wine based alcoholic beverages).

Thanks to its production activity and its market knowledge, LAFFORT® SPAIN has long been aware of the benefits of communication and transnational exchanges. Today it maintains its efforts in this domain in view of perpetuating the company’s international dimension.

With its headquarters located a few hundred meters from its original location, LAFFORT® SPAIN develops its activity from San-Sebastian’s suburbs in Guipúzcoa, to the rest of the counties wine-producing regions. Relying on a five branch network that constitutes a real logistical and administrative relay, it adds to its differentiation an unequaled quality of service.

The 50 and sum employees of LAFFORT® SPAIN see to the development and shinning of the company on its market, all the while staying tuned into the needs emanating from the group.

LAFFORT® SPAIN’s team cultivates and shares values of excellence and continuous improvements at the initiative of: Nicolas Rondeau (General Manager), Isaac Rigau (Commercial Manager), Victor Puente (Technical Manager) as well as the rest of the managing team.

LAFFORT® USA opened its doors to business in 2010 and is proud to be fulfilling the needs of the US Wine Industry for eight years.

The main warehouse is in Petaluma, one hour north of San Francisco.  Nestled at the border of Napa and Sonoma counties we are positioned in the heart of some of the premier winery regions in the U.S.  There are three retail stores, in St. Helena since 2012 in the center of the Napa Valley, in Paso Robles since 2016 along California’s Central Coast, and in Windsor since 2017 in Northern Sonoma County.  LAFFORT® products are distributed through a network of 19 retailers in all major U.S. wine markets.

The US team’s leader is Shaun Richardson, the General Manager. The technical and sales team includes: West Coast Sales Manager Jillian Johnson, four additional technical representatives in California and one in the Pacific North West. We employ five full-time and five seasonal employees in customer service and support.

Our team is ready to provide the information needed to make optimal winemaking decisions. Reach out to us anytime, we are happy to be of service!