Aresti signs with Copestick Murray

Aresti Chile Wine has signed with Copestick Murray to distribute its wine brands in the UK.

Robin Copestick, co-founder and director of Copestick Murray

Copestick Murray will now distribute the Chilean wine group’s Espiritu de Chile and Montemar exclusively in the UK under the new partnership.

Meanwhile, Copestick Murray will share distribution of the producer’s biggest label, Aresti, with Eurowines Limited.

Copestick already has experience with Chilean wine in the UK – it sells around 3 million bottles of wine from Chile in Britain every year.

It’s this experience its managing director Robin Copestick hopes will make the new partnership a success.

He said: “We have been looking for a good Chilean partner for many years. ACW are a perfect fit for us.

“They have good brands, good volumes, excellent quality and also a flexible attitude to the requirements of the UK.

“Their commercial team have great experience and are motivated to make this work, their winemaking team are first class and they have some real imagination in their marketing department.”

He said the arrangement of sharing ACW’s brands with Eurowines will benefit the Chilean company as each company will work together to promote its full range.

“Eurowines have done a great job of distributing the Aresti brand and I look forward to working with them to consolidate this important area of the market. However ACW have great potential outside of their own flagship brand”, he continued.

“This is where Copestick Murray can help ACW become a major player in the UK market.”

Matías Rivera, managing director for ACW, said: “During the last years we have been implementing a lot of changes in the company in order to achieve important distribution and also realise greater sales volumes.

“This new partnership is aligned with our plans in the UK, to become a more important player in one of the most important markets for the Chilean wines.”

ACW’s wines are sold in over 40 countries and achieved an annual turnover of US$20 million.

Update: A previous version of this article said that Copestick Murray will not be distributing ACW’s Aresti brand. It will in fact be sharing distribution of this label with Eurowines Limited. The article has been corrected to clarify this.