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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…
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.
For the March/April Spring issue of Sonoma Magazine, I had the pleasure of highlighting one of my favorite local Sonoma winemakers, Cindy Cosco. Take a trip on the way back machine and scroll through this website to its beginnings (I delete nothing lol), and you’ll see she’s one of the first folks kind enough to send me samples to review on, what was then, a new platform. Since then, we’ve become very good friends. So I was thrilled at the opportunity to write about some of the new, innovative things this lady is working on at the moment.
Hello my friends. Been another hot minute. As most of you are by now probably aware, I am currently flying my freelance flag. 🙀
Yeah. But I’ve got a few fun updates that have happened since that time.
