I had the immense pleasure and honor of interviewing Andréa McBride John and Robin McBride of McBride Sisters Wine Company for this exclusive interview featured on the Wine Industry Network platform. We talk about entrepreneurship, sustainable business management, staying socially active and engaged with consumers—and how to make wine FUN!
This is a much watch for anyone in the industry looking to learn how to stay up-to-date and relevant in the shrinking and oh-so-saturated market.
Celebrating women in wine with the Tasting Panel…
Hello my friends. Happy Spring, Easter, Holy Week, Passover—however and whatever you celebrate, I hope you enjoy it with good friends and shenanigans galore. For those celebrating a bit extra this weekend because, well, Easter and Orthodox Easter fall on the infamous 4/20—you’re in luck! My shameless self-promotion this week is a byline brag in Full Pour’s spring release. Where Wine Meets Weed is an exploration in the similarities between the aromas, flavors and structural components of both imbibes, meaning cross-category enjoyment can be possible. Yes, you can be both a wine and weed enthusiast. Read the full article online or download the PDF here.
And continue scrolling through for a lot of other news/newsy items from the last week, as well as fun facts like, alcohol can stay in your hair for 90 days. Yeah.
Silly comments are all my own. ✌️🥂
Just in time for 4/20 (which I realize is also Easter this year), you can now read my first feature in Full Pour Magazine. Where Wine Meets Weed is an exploration in the similarities between the aromas, flavors and structural components of both imbibes, meaning cross-category enjoyment can be possible. Yes, you can be both a wine and weed enthusiast.
What does sustainability even mean anymore? “It’s a broad term, isn’t it?” says Leslie Frank, cofounder of Frank Family Vineyards. “You’re hard pressed to find any landowner, vintner, or anyone in the wine industry who’s not ‘sustainable.’” But for Leslie and her husband Richard Frank, owning Napa’s third-oldest winery (and nationally registered historic landmark), stewarding over 380 acres of vineyard property, and crafting notable premium Napa wines “that spans from sparkling to Cabernet and everything in between,” means they continuously seek to improve business practices in an effort to better the life forces both below and above ground, within their local community and throughout the wine industry at large. “It’s our earth-to-bottle, green-to-our-roots philosophy,” says Leslie.
