Tag Archives: Women in Wine

Friday Feature: McBride Sisters Wine Company🍷

To celebrate International Women’s Day, I popped open this bottle. I toasted all women with a beautiful glass that filled my senses with the scents and flavors of rich blackberry, black cherry, and a hint of chocolate on the finish. But what really intrigued me was the story and vision of this wine company.

Since 2005, Robin and Andréa McBride have created not only the largest Black-owned wine company in the United States, but one that is inclusive, accessible, socially aware, and sustainable.

As well as producing some pretty incredible wines, their roles as visionaries, innovators, leaders and advocates led to the development of the SHECANWines Fund initiative. It was created to promote the professional advancement of women in the wine industry in an effort to help close the gender and race gap.

To date, the SHE CAN Fund has invested more than $3 million in the professional advancement and career growth of high-potential, professional women, with a specific focus on women of color.

This year’s focus: Women learning and excelling in the business of wine.🎉

This includes:

•Supply Chain

•Sales & Marketing

•Viticulture

•Mass Wine Production

•Winery Operations

•Point of Purchase

•Importing & Exporting

🗓️ Applications open April 3rd! To find out more check out: www.mcbridesistersfund.org/#YESSHECAN

Cheers!🥂

©️Copyright. The Wine Student, 2023.

These Women’s Work🍇🍷

Happy International Women’s Month!🎉

Here’s to all the amazing, strong women in the world: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them, & may we enjoy their amazing wines! 🥂

I’ve written before about some amazing women winemakers, and a great book that celebrates them.

It’s wonderful to read about their journeys from vine to wine. Each woman has a unique tale to tell. Their stories are not always easy but they’re worth sharing; not just for us but to inspire our daughters, and their daughters, and generations of daughters.

These stories, especially in this current political landscape, are crucial. They show the courage, strength and perseverance that is very much like the struggles of the vine itself.

Visit their sites. Read their stories. If you can, buy their wines. You’ll be glad you did.

🍇 Theopolis Vineyards

🍷 McBride Sisters

🍇 Aslina Wines

🍷 Imagery Estate Winery

🍇 Groth Vineyards & Winery

🍷 Screaming Eagle

To get you started in the Niagara Peninsula:

🍇 Drea’s Wine Company

🍷 Sue Ann Staff Winery

🍇 Two Sisters

Read about more awesome Canadian women winemakers here.

Also check out Wine Women.org dedicated to championing the advancement of women’s careers in the wine industry.

Here are two more great books to look for:

Women Winemakers: Personal Odysseys by Lucia Albino Gilbert & John C. Gilbert

Labor of Love: Women Winemakers of Piedmont by Suzanna Hoffman – a historical perspective of women

Cheers!🍷

©️Copyright. The Wine Student, 2023.

Wine, Women & Song

To celebrate Women’s History Month in the best way I could think of, I revisited a book about women whose passion is both the grape and the wine. 🍇🍷🎉

In her book, Women of the Vine, Deborah Brenner explores the lives of several women in wine. Each woman shares her own story about how she came to be in wine world; the pitfalls, the triumphs, and candid views on their experiences of discrimination within the industry.

There are only a small handful of books that chronicle the lives, careers, and history of some incredible wine women – those who have gone the distance in a typically male-dominated profession. But this is a rapidly changing landscape as more and more women are finding themselves drawn to the world of wine.

Here are two more great books to look for:

Women Winemakers: Personal Odysseys by Lucia Albino Gilbert & John C. Gilbert

Labor of Love: Women Winemakers of Piedmont by Suzanna Hoffman – a historical perspective of women

And here’s how you can support some wonderful women winemakers! Check out their sites below (and their unique stories) and keep them in mind on your next wine run:

🍇 Theopolis Vineyards

🍷 McBride Sisters

🍇 Aslina Wines

🍷 Imagery Estate Winery

🍇 Groth Vineyards & Winery

🍷 Screaming Eagle

Here’s to all the amazing, strong women in the world: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them, & may we enjoy their amazing wines! 🥂🎉

Cheers!🍇🍷

©️ copyright 2021 TheWineStudent

Celebrating Women of the Vine 🍷⚗🔬

  
To honor International Day of Women and Girls in Science, I revisited Women of the Vine, an inspiring book by Deborah Brenner. In it, she examines a varied cross section of women who are making great strides in what has been, over centuries, a male dominated profession. 

Some of the women profiled came into their calling dynastically (Stephanie Gallo), some discovered their passion along the way ~ punching down the cap of discrimination  (Merry Edwards) to have a satisfying career, and one blended her love of science and unique ability to identify aromas and tastes (Dr. Ann C. Noble). 

To create exceptional wine that stands the test of time, it’s a marriage of science, instinct, wisdom, and perseverance. These women understand that very well. 

From sommelier to winemaker to marketing, to creating the wine aroma wheel, Women of the Vine gives an interesting perspective for all wine lovers, and also for girls studying science who may be looking for an alternative in science-based careers. 

Cheers!