CellarHand is excited to announce that we have signed a key distribution agreement with Western Australia’s Fogarty family for the distribution of their Fogarty Wine Group stable of sought-after wine brands. These include Deep Woods Estate (Margaret River), Dalwhinnie (Pyrenees), Lakes Folly (Hunter Valley) and Lowestoft Wines from Tasmania – available to the trade for the first time.
On announcing the news Patrick Walsh, founder and managing director of CellarHand remarked: “This is an exciting moment for Virginia, myself and our whole team in our CellarHand journey, one that allows us to tackle the next decade and beyond with renewed confidence. The demand for high-quality wine is at an all-time high and coming out of the COVID years we were of a mind to make prudent additions to our folio if the right winery presented itself. We were obviously very much aware of Julian Langworthy’s winemaking prowess through his Nocturne label so when the possibility arose to add Deep Woods Estate other brilliant Fogarty Wine Group wineries to our portfolio in the knowledge that Jules and his team was at the helm it was an opportunity that definitely warranted our attention. The fact that there were very few portfolio clashes and certainly none that we haven’t been able to work through was paramount to our decision to embrace this. We are immensely loyal to our own ‘family’ of wineries as we call it, many of whom have been with us since the beginning. We’ve gotten to know Mark and Peter Fogarty well and have been impressed by their vision and their pursuit of excellence in all of their wineries. This is a happy story for everyone associated with Cellarhand”.
Peter Fogarty commented: “We’d long been admirers of the work Patrick and Gin have done with CellarHand over the years with their fabulous book of producers and in acknowledging the great market demand for our wines particularly from top restaurants, hotels and independent retailers up and down the Eastern seaboard was not really being met, we were keen to appoint the very best distributor to see to that. Mark and I are thrilled that our own wineries have now joined the CellarHand family. We look forward to seeing our labels on top restaurant lists up and down the country!”
Be sure to stay In touch with us, either through your sales person or our socials, as we introduce each of these great wineries into the portfolio over coming months. They will be available to the trade nationwide, excluding Western Australia.