714-258-8654

Received a call from a Chris Weber asking for the CEO.  Would not give me a company name.  His reply was just tell him that it is Chris Weber he will take the call.  He was told that the CEO was not available he hung up.

I called back to get us removed from the list and they pretended to have no idea what I was speaking about. Its a wine company, I think. Obnoxious.

I got two calls in a row today- the first time with no message but they called back immediately so I answered thinking it was important.   Then they had my name because they heard my message with my name.   Said he was a wine broker and wanted to sell me wine.   I hung up.

I got a call too. he said he was a wine broker and that he knew i liked red wine and that a friend had referred him to me... when i said i was not interested he in buying anything he said he was not selling anything...

THEY CALL MY CELL, NO MESSAGE,,,IT IS NO ONE I KNOW, BUT THEY NEVER leave message

They badgered our receptionist today claiming to be a "personal friend" of mine. She knew better and didn't put them through.  I took a call from what I believe to be these same people a few months back. Same story, they knew I was a wine lover and claimed someone had referred them to me but they couldn't give a name. When I told them I wasn't interested if this was a sales call they hung up on me. Very rude people!

Called for our CFO. I told the woman he was in a meeting and asked if she'd like his voicemail. She said sure and then hung out.
Some Googling shows that this is a Wine Broker -  Montesquieu

yeah, same [***] happened to me.

Wendy called a relative's home asking for me. Said a friend had given my name and # to her. Said something about wine. Relative would not give my # out but was given 714-258-8654 #. I called and the lady said Montesquieu. I was told Wendy was on the other line and they seemed eager to get my information. I did not give them any information. Strange!

Brittany from Montesquieu called for my boss saying it was a personal call... obviously... it is a sales call for Montesquieu wine

I have been called by Montesquieu over 25 times in the past month or so.  The caller always asks for someone by their first name, when I ask who is calling the person is very short on the phone and insists that the person they are calling wants to talk to them.

I have called Montesquieu Headquarters 4 times now and spoken to Tom and Adrian in regards to having my firm's phone number removed and nothing has come of it.  

I'm fed up with Montesquieu SCAM.

Just got a call from Stacey w/Montesquieu asking for my husband by name - said she had spoke to him earlier and was returning his call (funny - she asked for him by his first name which only happens when someone really DOESN'T know him!) - I asked her what it was in reference to, and she said that she couldn't tell me.  I told her that he will not take any calls from someone he has never heard from and since she couldn't explain her reason for calling, I said when she is able to tell me, then she can go ahead and call back.  What's REALLY comical is that my husband doesn't drink and the only info on this company I can find is that it sells wine (previously, his poison of choice was Jack Daniels and he never thought that "wine would catch on."

I have now gotten two calls in two months even after I asked to be taken off the list the first time. They use the tactics described in all the complaints above to get through the front desk/secretary. The number they called me from was their L.A. Office at 310-216-3101. Evidently, the supervisor's name is "Dana Naab" which I bet is code for their receptionist to say, "She's on another line. Would you like to leave a message?"

P.S. This is the L.A. orifice for this San Diego headquartered company. Check 415-536-1670 for more complaints and descriptions of their sales tactics.

Please file a complaint with the San Diego Better Business Bureau. Also, google them, and you will find that they are deceptive and bordering on fraudulent.

Same exact thing happens to me, I'm a receptionist for a large law firm in Downtown Portland Oregon. The caller asks for the person by first name and is rude, she says that she's a personal friend..The thing is is that she calls 20 times a day for several different people, I'm sure she's not a personal friend of 20+ people here. Why would we do business with someone like that? We won't! I will from now on put her calls into dead air.

Montesquieu Wines. Use extremely deceptive practices to be put through to their intended victim. With their scripted speech, abrupt rudeness, and circular "I'm not selling anything" shtick, it's difficult to see how they can be successful . . .

Rcvd call for our CFO today, I asked if could tell her who was calling he said sure ...coughed ...cleared throat...hung up.  However that gave me enough time to write down the name & number from caller ID. Next time they call I will be more prepared. Sure would hate to have their job!  I like being on this end much better!  Have a great day all!

This is a scammy wine telemarketing company.

OK, I have been in the wine biz for 6 years, trained here in NYC and UC Davis. I took a job at Montesquieu and was invariably disappointed with the products and sales methods; being that The wines are sold via 'cold call' in a carnival barker style. The training to work at Montesquieu is decidely NOT wine focused training. Instead, you are told to read the 'Secret', create a 'vision board of wealth' and sell based on targeting customers who exhibit an impulse buy mentality. The wines are not legit, they are created by purchased juice and unused lots and they put a large ticket price on the bottle. Once again, these are not small production-boutique wines from small family owned vineyards, but left over second-or more likely third label wines, with shiny labels trying to appeal to the nouveau riche. I resigned, as I am a wine pro, who cannot, in good conscious, sell a product that is fraudulent. Oh, one more thing. I was relatively successful, I made a sale a day,( you can expect to make a sale per 300 phone calls...and that's an amazing average as you are calling business people at their jobs and spend a majority of your time being hung up on by savvy ad-mins) but my wine sales were not because I was a trained wine pro, it was because I am very charismatic. I noticed that the second best so-called broker was a drug addict and knew nothing about wine at all....you are expected to drink all day, starting at 8:30am and for someone who loves fantastic wines, I had a hard time choking down a few of these subpar wines. The office managers were nice, if not disillusioned and they were not trained in wine at all, the office in New York is nice as well, but to reiterate, the wines are subpar and not sold by wine professionals. At the time of my departure, there were only 2 remaining 'brokers', one was the aforementioned drug addict....actually doing cocaine on the job, and another woman who knew her stuff and had vast food and wine experience but she popped Vicodin on a reguclar basis as she had a back injury from a car accident . The last I heard she ( the vicodin addict, not the coke-head) jumped ship based on the inethical products and sales methods. To sum up, this is a job for a person who is hard up as they pay you $500.00 a week for 6 months, you need not have any wine knowledge, and you don't have to pass a drug test, dress nicely or even have a professional demeanor.....If you are opportunistic and able to [***] on the phone you will do ok.....Expect to make no more than 20,000.00 yearly. After 6 months, you work 100 percent on commission. Soooo, you do the math. You only sell by the case. The average weekly sale is less than $3,000.00. So, there you go, if you have no other recourse, take a job at Montesquieu, but keep interviewing in the meantime.

Got a call looking for our CTO insisting he be given his Cell Phone number, was very demanding. But he got his email instead ...lol

Received a call from Montesquieu.  Called said I was referred to them.  I asked "by whom" and he replied that "that wasn't important."  He said that he understood that I enjoy fine wines. I told him that I didn't.  He replied "are you saying that you have never drank wine?"  I told him I was in AA.  He said "well you must know somone who isn't sober, refer me to them."  Impressive cold call.