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Ep 46: Ian Ford on the Single Biggest Mistake Wine Brands Make When They Enter Asia
Ian Ford arrived in China in 1995, started importing wine in 1999, and has spent the decades since watching the market transform from an...
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Ep 45: Prof. Simone Loose on How the Golden Age of Wine Came to an End
Brace yourself! Professor Simone Loose has some truth bombs to drop. She holds the Chair in Business Economics of the Wine and Beverage Sector...
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Ep 44: Simon Farr on Fine Wine, Bad Markets, and Where He Sees the Opportunities
Simon Farr has spent 50 years in the wine trade, most of that on things everyone else considered unnecessary, premature, or mildly alarming. He...
Ep. 43 Spiros Malandrakis's Blueprint for a Drinks Industry Comeback
Spiros Malandrakis, industry manager for alcohol drinks at Euromonitor International, has spent more than two decades watching the beverage industry expand, and is now...
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Ep 42: Why Carlsberg Chose Robert Pattinson to Sell the Beer That Converts Wine Drinkers
Celebrity partnerships in alcohol have a mixed track record. When a star is genuinely invested — creatively involved, personally passionate, publicly committed — the...
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Ep 9: Kirk French Explains Why Humans Have Been Drinking for 10 Million Years
Kirk French teaches one of the most popular undergraduate courses in the United States. His so-called “Booze and Culture” course at Penn State, which...