Healdsburg, CA 95448
Phone: 707-433-8122
Fax: 707-433-7519
Contact: Robert Nicholson
Web Site: http://www.intlwine.com/
Incorporated in 1990, IWA is a strategic advisory and corporate development firm headquartered in the California wine country that provides corporate finance and general management services to the leaders of wine industry clients on a worldwide basis. IWA is a licensed real estate broker and values and represents sellers and buyers of winery and vineyard assets. Over the years IWA has been retained by a number of major international wine groups, small family owned wine companies and leading U.S. and international banks to improve their business. Since 1993 IWA has initiated, advised on and structured various prominent wine industry transactions and joint ventures in the U.S. and overseas with a combined value of over US $750 million (valued at over US$ 85 million since end 2005), including the 2006 sale of Big House and Cardinal Zin to The Wine Group, the 2005 sale of Red Truck to 585 Partners, the Wild Horse Winery sale in 2003 to Jim Beam, the 2001 Hogue Cellars sale to Vincor, Fortune's acquisition of Geyser Peak in 1998, the 1995 Errazuriz Caliterra joint-venture with Robert Mondavi and Heublein's 1993 sale of The Greystone building in the Napa Valley to The Culinary Institute of America.