Bodega Domaine Bousquet
Tim Wilkes is an accomplished sales professional with a strong background in the wine and hospitality industries. Currently serving as the US East Coast Sales Director for Bodega Domaine Bousquet since June 2015, Tim manages sales and distribution across 22 states, focusing on regional and national chain business development. Prior to this role, Tim held the position of Sales Director for the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast USA, enhancing brand awareness and growth in a competitive market. Tim's experience also includes serving as Director of Food and Beverage Operations for Greenwich Harbor Cruises LLC and working as an Account Manager at New England Wine & Spirits, where Tim significantly grew on-premise and off-premise business relationships. Educational qualifications include a BA in Political Science and Business Administration from the University of Vermont.
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Bodega Domaine Bousquet
A 1990 vacation in Argentina was all it took. For third-generation winemaker Jean Bousquet, it was love at first sight. The object of the Frenchman’s desire: the Gualtallary Valley, a scenic, remote, arid terrain high in the Tupungato district of the Uco Valley in Argentina’s Mendoza region, close to the border with Chile. Here, where the condors fly and not a vine in sight, Bousquet discovered his dream terroir, an ideal location in which to nurture organically-grown wines. With altitudes ranging up to 5,249 feet, Gualtallary occupies the highest extremes of Mendoza’s viticultural limits. Fast-forward to the present and wine cognoscenti recognize it as the source of some of Mendoza’s finest wines. Back then, it was virgin territory: tracts of semi-desert, nothing planted, no water above ground, no electricity and a single dirt track by way of access. Locals dismissed the area as too cold for growing grapes. Bousquet, on the other hand, reckoned he’d found the perfect blend between his French homeland and the New World (sunny, with high natural acidity and a potential for relatively fruit-forward wines). Bousquet’s daughter, economist Anne Bousquet, and her husband Labid Al Ameri, a successful trader with Fidelity in Boston, found themselves increasingly drawn to the cause, including the opportunity it offered to put their shared philosophy on sustainability into effect. After a 2002 trip to Argentina, the couple began to invest in Domaine Bousquet. In 2005, Al Ameri joined his father-in-law full time, helping with the construction of the winery. Anne continued her work as an economist, before joining the company in 2008. In 2009, the couple moved to Tupungato full-time, assuming full ownership of Domaine Bousquet in 2011. Nowadays, Domaine Bousquet produces 4 million liters a year and export 95% of its volume to more than 60 countries. With our own import companies in the USA, Europe, and Brazil, Domaine Bousquet currently ranks in the top 10 Argentine wines