Integrated Marketing Communications and Brand Development

Tincknell & Tincknell, Wine Sales and Marketing Consultants, provide strategies, consultation, and services in wine sales, wine marketing, branding, and technology to wineries and wine related businesses. We help wineries compete in the burgeoning, global wine industry with creative, new, business techniques, building brand equity, innovative marketing, and applying today's technology effectively.

If it doesn't come from the heart, the message will be hollow. If you don't imagine it first, someone else will. If it isn't inspired and creative, it won't get noticed. Each link in the marketing process -- the heart, the mind, and creativity -- communicates your story to the world.

Paul Tincknell

Paul has over two decades in wine sales and marketing, from on- and off-premise sales to being an Assistant to the Director of Sales and Marketing at Chateau Montelena, and the Senior Marketing and Direct Sales Manager at Cuvaison Winery. His past experience includes retail wine sales (Partners In Wine, Pacific Wine Company, and Draper & Esquin Wine Merchants); on-premise beverage management (Hilton Hotel Ann Arbor); marketing, direct sales, and wine club management; information systems and office technology management; website design and content management; and strategic business planning. An occasional home winemaker, his interests and specializations at Tincknell & Tincknell, Wine Sales and Marketing Consultants, include creating an effective, branded, marketing environment through the combination of graphic design and marketing strategies, and developing innovative, alternative packaging to expand the popularity and accessibility of wine.

Jennifer Tincknell

Jennifer has over two decades of experience in the wine industry, which includes national sales, distribution management, wine buying and supplier relations, and importing to hands-on wine blending and production strategy. Fluent in French and Italian from attaining major and minor degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, Jennifer has traveled extensively throughout the major wine regions in Europe, South America and New Zealand on behalf of employers and clients. She was the Vice President and National Sales Manager for Wine Distributors and Wine Imports based in San Francisco. She worked for wine importers Bercut Vandervoort and Company, and her practice prior to Tincknell & Tincknell had clients that included Hanzell Vineyards, Private Cellars/Four Vines Inc., and Dufour & Company. National sales strategy, imports, integration of national sales with marketing and direct sales, human resources development and training, and product strategy is of particular interest and specialization for her at Tincknell & Tincknell, Wine Sales and Marketing Consultants.