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OUR SPECIAL GUEST
DANTE RIBOLI COLOMBATTI
Dante Riboli Colombatti is a techie, digital marketing pioneer, and Marketing & Design Director at Riboli Family Wines of San Antonio Winery. As the 4th generation of the 108-year-old San Antonio Winery, L.A.’s largest and longest-producing winery, Dante Colombatti not only understands the importance of tradition but has carried on the family legacy by helping to catapult the iconic winery to the national stage.
Dante’s vision was instrumental in establishing the Stella Rosa brand as the #1 imported wine in the country and in developing its innovative, new flavors and award-winning aluminum can packaging. His creative energy spearheaded national marketing campaigns for the Riboli Family Wine Estate’s other award-winners, such as Maddalena, San Simeon, Opaque, San Antonio Cardinale, San Antonio Fruit Farms and Juicy Sparkle, as well as new Stella Rosa Brandy.
Acomplishments
In 2018, the popular wine media company Wine Enthusiast named Dante in their 40 under 40 for his trailblazing accomplishments to the wine industry. Never content with the status quo, the WSET 3 awarded marketing director has increased the winery’s online sales by 45% percent year over year, created their trendy artisan wine club, and initiated an online club designed for sweet wine lovers (www.SweetWineClub.com). Dante is also launching website this summer that encourages wine lovers to design personalized wine labels (www.personalizedwinelabels.com).
With an associate degree from the Art Institute in graphic and web design and a Bachelor of Science in marketing from Regis University, Dante founded two companies that provided event and media support for brands such as Levis, Belkin, Nixon, Lego, Jarritos, Fiat, and New Castle Brewing. In 2016 he sold both media houses to Beacon Media. (www.LACANVAS.com)( Foam Magazine). Dante is actively involved with technology and has developed two popular SaaS projects: the reservation platform called Booking It ( BookingIt.io) and the QR multi-link platforms called JoyQR (JoyQR.com )
Committed to Community
Dante’s dedication to the community and the environment motivated him to implement a million-dollar water treatment plant at the family’s new winery in Paso Robles. Being committed to expanding the company’s non-profit and charity presence, he’s currently participating in a program that provides clean water to needy people in third world countries (WinetoWater.org). He also serves on the board of the Han Schneider Children Foundation that helps provide food for children and orphans also in third world countries (www.hanschiederchildrens.org).
Personal Affinities
Starting from adolescence, Dante loved learning about the interests of people. That care for others is displayed in his desire to provide the best product or service to consumers regardless of socioeconomic background or cultural differences. He is on a steadfast mission to improving the world through his CPG or technology innovation and projects,
This Renaissance man speaks three languages (English, Italian, and Spanish), is an avid outdoor sportsman—on water or land—and will be participating in the Ironman Triathlon this winter. Since moving to beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, Dante somehow finds time for his other passions: riding his Indian motorcycle, riding in his Jeep with the top down in search of the next best coffee shop, reading marketing books, and—surprise—listening to country music.
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