Montgó Founder Nicholas Hammeken

Motivated by a profound interest in wine, Nicholas Hammeken took his cellar master education and his business sales experience and has launched a number of entrepreneurial successes within with wine world. His success ranges from exportation to vinification to production-bottling of wines, both in Spain and Denmark.

Upon completion of his wine cellar education in Denmark, Nicholas took his education and applied it to various sales and marketing departments in the wine industry. His knowledge in sales and marketing took form with experience working for smaller firms in France and Germany, but it is the wealth of experience he obtained through working in the firm Oddbins, England that has given him the confidence to read the changing markets. Nicholas´ability to read the changing markets needs has resulted in the Montgó Collection being successfully distributed through the European market, as well as Japan, North America, and Russia.

1996 was a turning point for Nicholas as he decided to set forth on changing the perception of Spanish wine on the international market. With this foresight he launched his first company Vinnico Export. This company now successfully exports 12 millon bottles of Spanish wines a year. In 2001 he recruted winemaker David Tofterup and together they established the Montgó Collection - a collection of wines that would redefine Spanish wines as “New World” style wines coming from the “Old World”. His entrepreneurial success continues with the establishment in 2006 of his own bottling plant, Globus Wines in Denmark seeing 15 millon liters of international wine passing through it a year. Only time will tell where Nicholas´passion for wine and the industry will take him next.