The future of wine from the experts who are making it happen.
Real Business of Wine is the go-to series for today’s wine professionals.
If you want to know about what really makes the international wine industry tick, and how it is likely to change over the next few years, the Real Business of Wine is for you. From the smallest estate to the largest multinational; from financing and production to distribution and marketing, this is where the world’s leading experts come to share their experience, expertise and opinions.
Every RBW session brings together top professionals from across the world to share their expertise and experience on a specific topic with a global community.
Irene Tolleret is one of the most entertainingly outspoken politicians you will ever see on any screen. While not running Mas d’Auzières, her successful little Pic St Loup domaine, since 2019 she has worked as a member of the European…
On the eve of July 4th, highly respected trade writer, Graham Holter, and Mike Boyne, award-winning owner of Bin 2 in Padstow, one of Britain’s most dynamic small wine retailers. lift the lid on how the UK’s independent retailers have…
Nuclear engineer, inventor of medical devices – and creator of the Coravin, Greg Lambrecht is one of the few people who has directly affected the way fine wine is consumed.
Three months after the world really began to pay attention to COVID-19, Professor Simone Loose of Geisenheim University in Germany and Rob McMillan of the Silicon Valley Bank in California share their knowledge and research findings of how the wine…
Over the last 25 years, no country has had a greater impact on the wine industry than China. From being a negligible market, it has grown to being one of the largest in the world, with a fast-expanding production base…
As we move into Season Two, we look back at the last 12 weeks – at contributions from people like Jancis Robinson MW; D’Lynn Proctor, the model for the Netflix movie Uncorked; Bordeaux expert, Jane Anson; Maggie Henriquez of Krug;…
With over a million copies sold, Karen MacNeil tops the wine writing charts in the US. Hers was the only book that featured in the Netflix movie, Uncorked. Now she’s moved online with virtual tastings.
Dan Jago has been at the head of Bibendum one of Britain’s leading wine wholesalers, Tesco’s global wine division – one of the world’s largest by volume – and Berry Bros & Rudd, the UK’s oldest fine wine merchant. In…
Continuing the theme we began with India and Brazil, we look at Russia, one of the wine world’s most under-appreciated markets – where good wine is being produced, too.
As part of our ongoing series on wine communication, Fabien Lainé, Paul Mabray, Terry Xu, Mike Ratcliffe, and Scott Eddy take the lid off the world of influencers. How important are they really? What rules do they follow? How real…
Simon Woolf, award-winning author of Amber Wine, talks skin contact with rosé expert Liz Gabay MW, winemaker Tony Milanowski of Rathfinny Estate and natural wine distributor Doug Wregg of Les Caves de Pyrene.
Wines specifically aimed at women? And at men? Really? Well, on the one hand, there’s Cupcake and Little Black Dress and Middle Sister. And on the other there’s Carnivor and Sledgehammer and 19 Crimes… In a departure from the usual…
