The last day of April 2024 saw team Women in Wine LDN host our flagship event at Vintners’ Hall, the informal home of the wine industry since 1363. As our biggest annual get together, kindly supported for another year by the Vintners’ Trade Liaison Committee, we knew we needed a speaker who could do justice to the incredible space. And that we did!
Read MoreTo an audience of over 100 women (and a handful of men) at the venerable Vintners’ Hall, Jancis Robinson joined Women in Wine LDN at their flagship event, discussing her 4-decade career and issues ranging from pleasure to sexism, winewriting bug bears and more.
Read MoreThe latest Women in Wine LDN event, hosted with Pol Roger Portfolio, spotlighted three masters of Napa Valley winemaking.
Read MoreWe were delighted to host Jane Anson at the Farr Vintners office on 16th May 2022. WIW LDN’s Hannah Van Susteren led the discussion on her foray into wine journalism, how she established herself as one of the world’s pre-eminent experts on Bordeaux, and her outlook on Bordeaux’s future.
Read MoreOn 1st March, we hosted a Zoom call with Elizabeth and Gareth O’Kelly, co-founders of drinks industry recruitment firm, Vinokelly Search.
Read MoreWomen in Wine LDN collaborated with Wines of Great Britain for a series of Instagram Live interviews for International Women's Day 2021.
Read MoreLast night we spoke to Liz Dowty-Mitchell, who was a key source for the New York Times article, “The World’s Most Elite Wine Circle has a Sexual Harassment Problem” regarding the recent sexual harassment incidences within the Court of Master Sommeliers.
Read MoreOn Tuesday 28th January we held a negotiation skills workshop for 20 women working in the wine industry.
The aim of the event was to cover the fundamentals of any negotiation; how to structure your approach by looking at your opening stance, your walk away point and the variables to trade to get to both parties' zone of agreement.
Read MoreEarlier this week over eighty women working in the UK wine trade attended Women in Wine LDN’s 2019 flagship event “Forging a Path to Leadership”, to celebrate the past, present and future of leadership in the industry. Serena Sutcliffe MW delivered a keynote address. The audience then heard from a panel of three leaders in the wine industry – Diana Rollan, Group Head of Beverage at D&D London; Maria Lopez, Sales Director for UK and Ireland for Accolade; and Nicky Forrest, MD of Phipps Relations.
Read MoreOn Monday evening over 60 women in wine joined us at Unwined Waterloo for a summer social and a Q&A with Unwined's co-founder Kiki Evans.
Read MoreOn 21st May, we revived our speed networking event due to popular demand! Billed as a networking event for people who hate networking, the aim of this annual event is to provide our members with the tools to make networking feel honest and compelling.
Read MoreHosted by Wine Australia at Australia House, on 30th April Women in Wine LDN held an engaging panel discussion on an important theme - 'Sustainability in the Wine Industry - Approaches to Safeguarding our Future'.
Read MoreOn 12th December, Women in Wine LDN held our annual Christmas lectures event, featuring three speakers presenting on 'What to expect in 2019'.
Read MoreOn 25th September, over one hundred women working in the UK wine trade attended Women in Wine LDN’s flagship event ‘Reflections on Leadership’, to celebrate the past, present and future of leadership in the industry.
Read MoreOn 1st August, 30+ members of Women in Wine London enjoyed an insightful presentation with Gary and Elizabeth O’Kelly, of Vinokelly recruiters at WSET, Bermondsey Street.
Read MoreOn 22nd May, Women in Wine LDN hosted a panel discussion at the London Wine Fair’s Industry Briefing area. We were invited by Hannah Tovey, the first female director of the London Wine Fair, who joined us on stage to give an inspiration introduction about her own journey through the industry.
Read MoreOn 14th May, Women in Wine LDN hosted ‘Tradition and Trends: The Fine Wine Market’ at Liberty Wines in Clapham. The panel was made up of Ella Lister, founder of Wine Lister; Sara Phillips, Marketing Manager of Liv-ex; and Sara Guiducci, Senior Fine Wine Sales Executive of Corney and Barrow.
Read MoreBianca Bosker, author of ‘Cork Dork’, joined us from NYC to discuss her New York Times bestselling book that's taking the US wine industry by storm. ‘Cork Dork’ is the story of her journey into the highly charged world of “obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste”, as the title of the book describes.
Read MoreIn November WIW LDN hosted our Industry Mavericks and Creative Entrepreneurs panel discussion with speakers Charlotte Wilde (formerly of Sager + Wilde), Corinna Pyke (Borough Wines) and Maggie Campbell (Privateer Rum) at SW4 wine bar in Clapham.
Read MoreOn 10th August, we held a multi-faceted summer social, combining a talk on ‘Is Wine Gendered?’ followed by our first speed networking session. Over 40 women working in the London wine industry joined us at the Liberty Wines office in Clapham for a very successful and inspiring session.
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