Submit your nomination for the wine industry’s Most Inspiring People. Today is the first day to submit nominations for Wine Industry Advisor’s annual Most Inspiring People Awards. In 2018, Wine Industry...
By Kathleen Willcox For decades, the Venn Diagram intersection of the Latinx and the wine communities happened solely in the vineyard. Slowly but surely, that’s changing — thanks to people...
By Laurie Wachter Christian Oggenfuss, DipWSET, Napa Valley Wine Academy founder and CEO Under the visionary leadership of founder and CEO Christian Oggenfuss, DipWSET, the Napa Valley Wine Academy...
By Laurie Wachter André Hueston Mack [Image courtesy of Maison Noir Wines] André Hueston Mack left at the pinnacle of his career as head sommelier of Thomas Keller’s Per Se restaurant in New York...
By Kathleen Willcox As any CEO (or parent) worth their salt knows, going out and doing the thing — instead of pontificating about the importance of going out and doing the thing — is the best way...
By Laurie Wachter It’s been 45 years since Tom Klein first set eyes on Rodney Strong winery and vineyards. He was working at McKinsey & Company after earning his Stanford MBA when an assignment...
By Paul Vigna Farming grew on Sharon Horton from the time she started helping her father with the row crops and livestock on their Missouri farm in the 1960s. Today, at 77 years old, she’s still spending...
By Paul Vigna There are 160 employees at Domaine Carneros, a landmark California producer of méthode traditionelle sparkling wine and Pinot Noir. [Photo by Damion Hamilton, courtesy Domaine Carneros]...
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By Laurie Wachter Krista Chaich, Executive Director, Temecula Valley Winegrowers Association “I’m a behind-the-scenes kind of gal,” says Krista Chaich, executive director of the Temecula Valley...
By Kathleen Willcox Deborah Brenner built her career on creating spaces for and celebrating women in places where, while they weren’t necessarily unwelcome, they certainly weren’t a notable...
