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An Interview with Karen MacNeil

An Interview with Karen MacNeil

We recently caught up with Karen MacNeil, author of the best -selling book The Wine Bible in anticipation of her visit Saturday, May 4th, where she’ll teach her hugely popular class What Makes Grea...

Women of the Vine Alliance is proud to announce our partnership with the San Francisco Wine School.

Women of the Vine Alliance is proud to announce our partnership with the San Francisco Wine School.

Women of the Vine Alliance is proud to announce our partnership with the San Francisco Wine School. Our COO and fearless leader, Kristin Campbell, attended the second annual Women of the Vine Con...

Meet Madeline Triffon - First American Female Master Sommelier

Meet Madeline Triffon - First American Female Master Sommelier

Madeline Triffon has traversed the eddies of being not only a female pioneer in the until recently male­-dominated US wine business, but more so in being the first Master Sommelier of her gender. W...

MEET MONIKA CHRISTMANN - INSIDER INTERVIEWS BY DAVID FURER

MEET MONIKA CHRISTMANN - INSIDER INTERVIEWS BY DAVID FURER

Prof. Monika Christmann and I met in Chicago soon after she'd completed her time working on Simi Winery's winemaking team having begun as Department Head for both Oenology & Wine Technology and...

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Jean Arnold-Sessions

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Jean Arnold-Sessions

Jean Arnold-Sessions' career has been greatly centered around wineries in northern California: Chateaux St. Jean and Montelena, J, Jordan, Chalk Hill, Williams Selyem, Laurel Glen, Rudd, and for th...

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Carole Meredith

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Carole Meredith

Best known for her UC Davis research group's pioneering use of DNA typing in differentiating Vitis Vinifera varieties and elucidating their parentages, Carole Meredith's first career has helped in ...

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Dr. Liz Thach, MW

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Dr. Liz Thach, MW

Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” Thach, MW is a Professor of Management and Wine Business at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, areas of expertise including Wine Business Strategy, Human Resou...

Insider Interviews by David Furer – Presenting Lydia & Claude Bourguignon

Insider Interviews by David Furer – Presenting Lydia & Claude Bourguignon

Partners in work and life, Lydia & Claude Bourguignon are the most heralded viti-soil scientists in the world with clients extending beyond their native France to include New Zealand, the US, a...

Insider Interviews by David Furer – Presenting Debra Meiburg

Insider Interviews by David Furer – Presenting Debra Meiburg

Acquiring a Master of Wine accreditation doesn’t come easy. What was the most challenging part of your MW studies? The most rewarding?

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Martine Saunier

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Martine Saunier

As an expatriate Frenchwoman many years back, why set yourself up as an importer in the US? When I came here in 1964 I started drinking California wines such as Beaulieu, Italian Swiss Colony, and ...

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Meridith May

Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Meridith May

In 2007 Meridith May had been serving as publisher/editor of California-based veteran Paterson’s Beverage Journal with Anthony Dias Blue, its ongoing columnist, when the two bought the name ‘Paters...

Women in Wine on the Rise

Women in Wine on the Rise

The second half of 2013 saw an upsurge in activities for women in wine in South America. In December at the Museo del Vino was the first meeting of the Asociación de Muejeres del Vino del Uruguay (...