About Casa Torelli Wine Imports

OUR STORY

Our founder and namesake, M. Gabriella Torelli, was born and raised in Florence, Italy. She moved to the United States in 1963, were she raised a family of three sons while establishing and operating various small successful businesses. She then returned to her roots, and partnered in a textile manufacturing business in Florence, Italy. Her goal was to create a private label manufacturing opportunity for major retailers in the United States. She has built and maintains ownership in this successful knitwear company to date.

Today Ms. Torelli is fulfilling one more passion and desire to create a business with her sons. In starting Casa Torelli she felt that her family’s ties to its’ Italian culture and tradition would be the basis of this business -- and its’ center point is the family gathering for dinner while enjoying great Italian wines. Since she and her partner already ran a small vineyard in Tuscany, it made perfect sense for her to create an import business to bring a variety of fine Italian wines to the United States with her family and sons.

OUR COMPANY

Casa Torelli will leverage the success and recognition our founder M. Gabriella Torelli has had in producing and selling private label Italian knitwear lines in the U.S. and Canada. Ms. Torelli’s success marketing Italian products for the U.S. has not gone unnoticed by her peers and vendor base in Italy. In an effort to find new distribution opportunities for their wines, a group of fine Italian producers approached her to create an avenue to the U.S. consumer market. After an exhaustive review and sampling process with her staff of oenologists and sommeliers, a group of select wineries were chosen. This producer network is viewed by Casa Torelli as working partners, and is a keystone asset of the company.        

Casa Torelli’s portfolio represents genuine and traditional wines from 6 regions and 11 Wineries. The wines selected for the U.S. market are not only true to their varietal but traditional in their winemaking heritage. The wine makers and Casa Torelli reviewed the market to insure their selection and offering of wines would also compete on a price to quality ratio for a national distribution model.

Casa Torelli was also fortunate to have the opportunity to create a select grouping of wines for one of the most well known and passionate Italians -- Mr. Thomas Lasorda. Mr. Lasorda shared the same passion for his culture and love for Italian family values as the Torelli’s and made the relationship between the Lasorda and Torelli families a perfect match. Tommy Lasorda has had a lifetime of success by putting together a team of passionate and loyal players, while creating a family environment to compete. He has undoubtedly chosen to create the same with his wines and Casa Torelli Imports.

ABOUT US….

Maria Gabriella Torelli
Founder, Chief Executive Officer Florence Office

Lorenzo Torelli-Lesky
President

Andrea Torelli-Lesky
Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Gabriele Torelli-Lesky
Business Advisor.

William Brown
Chief Operations Officer.

William Goldberg
Private Label and Lasorda Brand Manager.

Mitchell R. Fiedler
Intellectual Property, Web Development & Marketing.

Casa Torelli Imports, Inc.
2932 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 202
Santa Monica, CA 90403
310-315-2140