With Richard Portes, Professor of Economics at London Business School, we talk Great Cessation & pandemic economy.
A conversation to understand economic impact we’re seeing as a result of Covid-19, and the specific implications this has for the wine world.
With a growing number of financial funds pulling away from companies dealing with alcohol, how can we make sure that Fine Wine doesn’t become a sin stock?
A conversation to explore the links between luxury, sociology, marketing and Fine Wine.
With Prof. Beverley Skeggs, we dive deep into behavioural science and the concepts of inclusivity and exclusivity, casting a different light on some of our ecosystem’s oldest battles and answering key questions on Fine Wine’s language, its symbolism and its struggle to break cultural norms.
Do Fine Wine and luxury really mean different things?
Last year in Bordeaux, we talked geopolitics with Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution. Back in July 2019, international trade was already shaken by tariffs, trade and what she described as “the weaponisation of economic interdependence”.
In collaboration with The Real Business of Wine, we had a long chat with Margareth Henriquez, head of Krug, and discussed her PhD thesis on business, luxury and wine.
Nigel Greening, owner of the iconic Felton Road in New Zealand, and Elin McCoy, award winning journalist, explore the notion of luxury and the power of irreverence and rebellion.
How to harness Diversity-Agility-Sustainability and Purpose to futureproof the Fine Wine Ecosystem
The second part of our analysis of the current situation based on three weeks of Online Roundtables gathering 70+ Fine Minds from all over the world, enriched with audio and video content.
Though digital conversations are being useful to establish a regular level of connection, are they still relevant when it comes to etablishing trust, complicity or intimacy? How can Fine Wine, a social and human product that is meant to be shared, can create new paradigms to thrive in the digital world?
Our analysis of the current situation based on three weeks of Online Roundtables gathering 70+ Fine Minds from all over the world
On 21 April, our chair Nicole Rolet and executive director Pauline Vicard joined hosts Robert Joseph and Polly Hammond of The Real Business of Wine webcast, as well as guests Amber LeBeau of Spit Bucket and Francis Perrin of Washington’s Chateau Ste Michelle, for a virtual discussion on the changing wine consumer. Pauline presented part of ARENI’s research started in … Read More
While the wine ecosystem, from production to distribution, seems to agree on what Fine Wine is not – a wine of poor quality, that’s mass produced, made using short cuts and widely distributed – there is little agreement on what a “Fine Wine” actually is. The very idea that we need to describe the meaning and attributes of Fine Wine … Read More
