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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...
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Ep 41: How Bread & Butter Turned Wine Anxiety Into a Growth Strategy With Caitlin Ward
Bread & Butter is a rare bright spot in a category full of nervous wine producers. Caitlin Vartain Ward explains how the brand grew...
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Ep 40: Ed Mundy From Jefferies on Alcohol's 27 Head Winds
Jefferies beverage analyst Ed Mundy unpacks why alcohol’s post-pandemic slowdown isn’t a single story but a whole world of pressure. There are the macro...