how it works

If you become a Greffage Imports customer the first thing we will help you do is ship your wine to us through the shipper of your choice. We’ll help you designate us as one of an importer of record, get your salepersons’ license and any other paper work that is needed. Once the wine arrives at our warehouse in New Jersey it is effectively on consignment with Greffage. You or your sales agent then contact potential clients to show them the wine. When you get an order Greffage will deliver it to your client and invoice them (in Manhattan, we can deliver this as soon as the next day). When your clients pay (a maximum of thirty days later by law) we will remit payment in a monthly report minus any warehousing and delivery expenses and our modest commission. We don’t get paid until you get paid.

All wine in New York needs to be sold to restaurants or retail outlets at a set price which is set through a process called price posting. Greffage takes commission on the posted price of the wine when it sells. You should make sure that you post a price that is high enough to cover all of the storage, delivery and cost of Greffage’s commission.  If you need, we can help you find the right price

You send it. You sell it. We store, deliver, invoice, collect and pay you.

Seminars

We want to make selling wine as simple as possible for you, but we know that the three tier system can be complicated. To help you navigate the system we run a seminar on the import and distribution system, and another on how to go about selling your wine in New York. Attendance to the seminars which are held biannually is free for Greffage customers.

Need more support? We are happy help. Sales and logistics consulting outside of the seminars is available on an hourly basis.