Our Story
In April 2004, Michael Quinttus founded VINTUS based on his desire to develop a focused portfolio of exceptional, family-owned, estate-based producers of hand-crafted wines. Michael was previously a senior executive at Kobrand Corporation, where he managed their wine portfolio. Every visitor to this website knows that wine uniquely enhances the quality of life. One of wine’s most thrilling dimensions is the seemingly endless range of aroma, flavor and texture profiles it offers, depending on vineyard sites, grapes used, climate and vinification. As wine consumers and professionals become more experienced with wine, they relish this diversity and savor new flavor and style experiences.
Our work, with our partners, is to match the passion and rigor of our producers with the sophistication and determination necessary to make an impact in the fine wine industry.”
The wine industry, like other businesses, has experienced progressive consolidation in all its tiers of distribution (producer, wholesaler and retailer/restaurant). In this context, it is the goal of VINTUS to assemble an extraordinary range of “wines of place” produced by passionate personalities driven to extract the maximum expression from their estates. These are visionary leaders that are producing today and tomorrow’s benchmarks, wines that can and deserve to stand out in the market. Our work, with our partners, is to match the passion and rigor of our producers with the sophistication and determination necessary to make an impact in the fine wine industry.
VINTUS is not just the embodiment of its remarkable estates. It is also a team of young, dynamic and highly motivated professionals in sales, marketing and operations who share the VINTUS vision and its standards of excellence and service. And our wines are sold through a network of distributors in all 50 states and the Caribbean who have been carefully selected as partners because of their sophisticated wine knowledge, similar philosophical foundations, relationships with the finest wine shops and restaurants in their markets, and their commitment to our wines.
We greatly appreciate your interest in our unique portfolio of wines, and thank you for taking the time to delve deeper into the fascinating backgrounds of our producers and their compelling wines.
Executive Team
Michael Quinttus
President
Chief Executive Officer
Alexander Michas
Executive Vice President
Chief Operating Officer
James Federico, Jr., CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Gitter
Vice President
Director of Marketing
Sales Team
Mark Caron
Vice President
National Sales Manager, Northern U.S.
Tom Dillione
Vice President
National Sales Manager, Southern U.S.
Patrick Will
Vice President
Brand Management & Development
Christina Miller
Vice President
Director of National Accounts, Airlines & Cruise Lines
Linda Wish
National Accounts
Strategic Retail Manager
Meagan Reister
National Accounts
Sales Manager
Carrianne Brookins
NJ/PA/WV Division Manager
Christophe Courteaud
Mid-Atlantic Division Manager
Wayne Raborn
Southeast Division Sales Manager
Rik Steere
South Florida & Caribbean
Sales Manager
Brian Bergeron
West Florida Sales Manager
Jonathon Nicholson
South Central Division Manager
Maureen Lara-Fournier
South TX Manager &
LA/AR State Manager
Craig Collins, MS
Italian Portfolio Sales Manager
Jonathan Tagliani
New England Division Manager
Deirdre Pollard
Boston Sales Manager
Anthony Hendrie
Midwest Division Manager
Nicole Imparato
Chicago Sales Manager
Todd Coffin
Western Division Manager
Becca Rumsey
Southern CA Manager &
AZ State Manager
Brittany Powers
Northwest Division Manager
Rob Harp
Central Division Manager
Marketing Team
Anthony Cohen
Brand Director
Alyssa Faden
Consumer Marketing & PR Director
Santosh Varghese
Marketing Manager
Katie Shrout
Marketing Manager
Jesse Levine
Content Manager
Ryan DeGraw
Marketing Associate