Bill Bishop is the National Sales Manager for Steele Wines in Northern California. He has a lifetime of experience in the wine world from helping his father deliver wines as a boy in Connecticut and studying enology and viticulture at University of California Davis to working harvest at Far Niente Winery and nearly 20 years of his career at Carneros Creek Winery. Bill has a wealth of knowledge that we dig into in this episode. He has a story for everything about wine and it was an absolute pleasure to chat with him.
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Helen Johannesen (@helenswines) is a sommelier, entrepreneur, wine shop owner, lover of the hustle, and an incredibly thoughtful and kind person. We dive into a lot in this episode from growing up in NYC and moving to Madison, Wisconsin to the challenges she’s overcome in a male dominated industry and how her drive and lack of insecurity has pushed her to accomplish so much at a young age.
We also talk about being recognized for your hard work with awards and what effect they have; she’s a 2016 Food & Wine magazine Sommelier of the year.
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Chris Strieter (@cstrieter) is an entrepreneur and co founder of Senses Wines (@senseswines), a boutique winery in Sonoma making Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and is the co-founder of Duchess in Oakland (@duchessoakland), a gastro pub serving up California pub fare. You can learn more about Chris at http://crupodcast.com/show/chrisstrieter
In this episode we dive into a lot of different topics, but the main one being how Chris and his co-founders have worked to build a boutique winery from the ground up and now have their wines in restaurants like The French Laundry. We also talk about starting a restaurant, his advice to entrepreneurs, technology, and his passion for space travel.
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Michael Villas is an advanced sommelier and co-founder of the wine labels Penville and Maison d’Amis. Penville makes Rhone style Grenache from the Santa Barbara region in California and Maison d’Amis makes Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. You can connect with Michael on Instagram @mcvillas and learn more about him at crupodcast.com
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Giuseppe Cola (@pjritzsomm) is the first Perrier-Jouet sommelier at The Ritz London. He is also the award winner of the Annual Award of Excellence in Service 2016 from the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts London, the most prestigious award available to young professionals in the hospitality industry today.
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John Kapon (@JohnKapon) is the CEO of his family's wine store that was started in 1820, Acker Merrall & Condit. Acker Wines is now one of the largest auction houses in the world.
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David Baker (@dave301) a writer, filmmaker and interactive media producer living in the Pacific Northwest. He directed American Wine Story is a documentary about the passion and determination of those who pioneer wine in America.
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Philip Staveley (@StaveleyPhilip) is a director at Amphora Portfolio Management, a bespoke wine investment business advising private investors. Philip graduated from St. Andrews in 1980, has worked in Hong Kong and London as an Asian equities broker, and built the first ever composite Global Emerging Markets distribution platform for Deutsche Bank. He is a fine wine investor himself and loves sharing wine with others.
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Peter Shakeshaft (@PRShakeshaft) is the founder and CEO of Vin-X. A qualified corporate financier, Peter’s career spans twenty years in the Financial Services industry where he founded and led a group which grew sales to over £100 million.
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Miles Davis (@wamllp) is a partner at the London based Wine Asset Managers, who are responsible for managing The Fine Wine Fund and The Fine Wine Investment Fund. Think of Wine Asset Managers as a hedge fund for wine. You can connect with Miles on Twitter and learn more about him here.
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Constantin Press (@WineContor) Founder of The Wine Contor, an importer of high-end German and Italian wines based in Shanghai. He’s lived and worked in New Zealand, Chile, worked for Vinitaly, and was born in the Mosel in Germany. Constantin is working to bring great wine to the people of Shanghai.
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Rob McMillan (@SVBWine) is the founder and Executive Vice President of Silicon Valley Bank's Wine Division based in St. Helena, California. Starting in 1992 he developed the division from the idea and start-up phase to the point where it is today, now regarded by many as the leading provider of financial services to the fine wine business on the west coast of the United States.
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Scott McWilliam (@scottmcwilliam) is a 6th generation senior winemaker with McWilliam’s Wines, his family’s wine company that was started in 1877 when the first vines were planted. We talk about everything from the art of winemaking to the history of his family’s company that played a large part in the formation of the Australian wine industry.
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David Baeza (@DavidBaeza) is a Harvard Business School educated entrepreneur and marketer. He's worked with companies like Citrix to develop Go To Meeting and Go To Webinar. He's been the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Lynda.com, is an advisor to Treehouse the online education platform, and is now the CEO & Co-Founder of a company called Vine Rangers. His mission with Vine Rangers is to utilize the latest in drone, mobile, cloud, and imaging technology to work with winemakers to help them grow the best possible quality grapes, help them understand why, and do it again the next year.
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Dustin Wilson (@dustinwilsonms) is a Master Sommelier. At the time of this recording he was the Wine Director at Eleven Madison Park. Currently, he is the Co-founder of Vallin Wine & Anvil Wine and an advisor the PerUs and Mason Pacific. You may know him from the wine documentary, Somm and Somm: Into The Bottle, where we witnessed part of his journey to becoming a Master Sommelier.
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