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podcast· 57:32· Ep 32Deconstructing the language of wine to attract new consumers: In Conversation with Sandrine Goeyvaerts
This week, we meet Sandrine Goeyvaerts,a Belgian wine merchant, journalist for Elle magazine and author of several books on wine. Her latest work, "Manifeste pour un vin inclusif (Manifesto for an inclusive wine) argues for a different use of language within the French-speaking wine world and looks at how changing the language of wine could open the door to new consumers. The interview that follows is in French. For the English transcription of this conversation, visit areni.global.
podcast· 48:14· Ep 31Understanding Asia’s Affluent Consumers: In Conversation with Amrita Banta
In this episode we meet Amrita Banta, founder and director of Agility Research, a luxury consulting company ranked among the top ten globally, which focuses on the affluent consumers of luxury and premium brands. We discuss how COVID changed the relationship between Asian consumers and luxury goods, and how the past few months have led to renewed spending, and to Fine Wine finding its way into millions of Asian households for the first time.
podcast· 42:02· Ep 30How Much Is Enough? In Conversation with Felicity Carter and Jordan Sale
In this episode, we share a conversation that took place in the 2021 edition of the Batonnage Forum. Bâtonnage is a US-based initiative stirring up the conversation on Women and Wine. Its annual forum brings together wine professionals as well as wine industry supporters to discuss and act on the unique challenges and opportunities that women in wine have faced both historically and present-day. On the 23rd of June 2021, ARENI invited Felicity Carter, Editor-in-Chief at Pix and Jordan Sale, CEO and founder of 81 cents, to talk pay gaps, negotiation skills, globalization of the work place and financial transparency.
podcast· 57:10· Ep 29Fine Wine and Football: In Conversation with Tim Atkin MW and Phillipe Auclair
In the middle of the UEFA European Football Championship, we meet wine critic and journalist Tim Atkin MW and Phillipe Auclair, England correspondent for France Football. In this special episode, we discuss this very popular social phenomenon, while having a lot of fun pairing football players and teams with their wine equivalents.
podcast· 50:36· Ep 28Life-Changing Travel in the Time of COVID: In Conversation with Tom Marchant
We meet Tom Marchant, co-founder and director of Black Tomato, an award-winning agency which creates what they describe as unique and perfectly-tailored travel experiences. We discuss what luxury, hospitality and creating experiences means in practice. In consideration of ARENI’s latest report, we compare and contrast what fine wine consumers have in common with affluent travellers.
podcast· 58:42· Ep 27Towards a local understanding of diversity and inclusion: In conversation with Tomiwa Owolade
Conversations about diversity and inclusion, along with discussions about how to open the doors to Black and other marginalised groups, have been long-overdue. But, finally, the last 12 months has seen an outburst of publications and initiatives aimed at taking action. But within wine, many of the voices speaking out were American. Although some wine articles included voices from South Africa, local voices were often missing. We meet British journalist Tomiwa Owolade to discuss the complexity of the BIPOC situation in Europe and notably in the UK.
podcast· 58:51· Ep 26Revisiting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: In conversation with Dr Akilah Cadet
It's been a year since the murder of American George Floyd, a crime that galvanised widespread protests and political organising in the US. The world took notice and conversations, protests and other actions against racism spread internationally. Twelve months later, we meet Dr Akilah Cadet, founder of Change Cadet, a US-based change management and organizational development consulting firm supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace. We take a moment to look back, measure the progress and ask what the next steps could be. What would true diversity mean for Fine Wine?
podcast· 44:17· Ep 25On money, transparency and diversity: In conversation with Andrew Jefford
Money is not the most comfortable of topics in the wine world, though fair remuneration is the key to increasing the diversity of voices and talents. In this episode, we meet Andrew Jefford, an award-winning journalist, wine writer and educator, and one of the only major figures in an otherwise opaque industry to publicly reveal his revenue and earnings. We discuss writing, negotiation power and transparency, and how to define one's worth in today's wine world.
podcast· 47:35· Ep 24Inside the Mind of a Collector: In Conversation with Professor Shirley Mueller
Professor Shirley Mueller has had two careers. Her first was a practising neurologist and a tenured professor at the University of Indiana in the United States. She left both practice and academia to become an investment advisor, and began writing for Physician’s Money Digest about the neuropsychology of investing. Along the way, she developed a deep passion for Chinese export ceramics and became an ardent collector herself. We meet to discuss her latest book, Inside the Head of a Collector – Neuropsychological Forces at Play . In this fascinating conversation, we explore the question of what drives collectors.
podcast· 53:05· Ep 23Inside France’s Culinary College for a glimpse of the future
Celia Tunc is Secretary General of France’s Culinary College. The association, founded by 18 of the most renowned and influential French chefs – including Alain Ducasse, Joel Robuchon and Paul Bocuse – aims to represent, promote and transmit artisanal culinary heritage through tradition and innovation. Celia emerges from a year that shook France’s relationships to gastronomy, restaurants, producers and winemakers, with the belief that the future of the world requires a new relationship to food, based on craftsmanship and diversity, We meet her to discuss the challenges that lie ahead.
podcast· 1h 07m· Ep 22The rise of the Non-Premise: In Conversation with Tim Angelillo
The three tier system regulates the distribution of alcohol within the United States. The Federal framework stipulates that a spirits or wine producer (the first tier), should sell first to a distributor (the second tier), that will in turn, sell to a retailer (the third tier). This retailer must have a license to sell alcohol either in a shop (off-premise) or in a restaurant (on-premise). This Federal framework changes at the state level, with each local government putting in place specifications and regulations according to their interpretation of the Federal requirement. This system, established since the end of Prohibition, makes distribution of alcohol between local zones, counties or state borders extremely difficult. What if there was a legal way to work alongside the established three-tier system in the US to create a disruptive route to market, based on convenience, while working within the system? What would it take to build a distribution channel that would allow consumers t
podcast· 1h 40m· Ep 21Re-inventing Restaurants, Rethinking Wine Lists
This week we are pleased to share the recording of our Insight Series Re-inventing restaurants, rethinking wine lists, recorded on the 2nd of March 2021. With the insight of 6 international experts and guest star co-moderator James Tidwell MS, we start to imagine the trends and levers of change that will allow restaurants to re-surface, and decipher how they will affect restaurants’ wine lists going forward. + Antoine Abou-Samra - Founder, A Table for Two, Lebanon + Ray Isle, Executive Wine Editor, Food & Wine Magazine, USA + Stephan Leuschner – Director International Key Accounts, Rational, Switzerland + Tinashe Nyamudoka - Sommelier and Founder, Kumusha Wines, South Africa + Jon Pepper MW, Managing Director, Tenuta del Mundo, Italy + Laurent Plantier, Co-founder, Alain Ducasse Entreprise, and Partner, FrenchFood Capital, France
podcast· 55:52· Ep 20Learning from the Coffee World - In conversation with Peter Giuliano
What can Fine Wine learn from coffee? And what, in turn, can coffee learn from Fine Wine? This week ARENI speaks to Peter Giuliano, the executive director of the Coffee Science Foundation, to explore what two of the world’s favourite beverages can offer each other.
podcast· 50:00· Ep 19Ingredients, recipes and chefs - How to move the restaurant world forward - In conversation with Alicia Kennedy
This week we meet popular food writer Alicia Kennedy, who is currently at work on a history of veganism, to be published in 2022. We discuss food and the many issues surrounding it, from politics and labour to hospitality and sourcing. In exploring what the future holds for ingredients, recipes and the restaurant experience, we consider their impact on the future of restaurants and their wine lists.
podcast· 1h 04m· Ep 18Codes, Norms and Beliefs: How the Way We Eat and Drink is Changing – In Conversation with Véronique Pardo
This week we meet Véronique Pardo, food anthropologist and director of France's Observatoire des habitudes alimentaires ("Eating Habits Obeservatory"), where she heads two major programmes on food behaviours, cultures and human/animal relationships. We discuss with her the values of eaters today and how the current crisis has changed some of the foundations of our food systems. How has human food become an object of such moral concern in Western societies? Are the criticisms of meat eating, and the trend towards vegetarian and vegan consumption, redefining our food model and our vision of the world? If we are what we eat, what do our Western eating habits say about who we are? The following conversation is in French. For a written transcript in English, please follow the link to our website.
podcast· 36:42· Ep 17Shaping Tomorrow – A Global Overview of International Diplomacy
This week we meet Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Her areas of expertise include transatlantic relations, German foreign policy, NATO, the European Union’s foreign, security and defence policy, international law, and human rights. We discuss with her what is at stake for international diplomacy in 2021 and what the global challenges ahead mean for us as citizens and wine trade people.
podcast· 1h 11m· Ep 16Appellations, Classifications, Community - A collective vision from Down Under
This week we feature not one but two guests to discuss collective action in the Australian and New Zealand Fine Wine scenes, and whether they can become a model for the future. Andrew Caillard MW, founder of the Langton’s Fine Wine classification looks at what brings organised gatherings together and walks us through colonisation and how its impact is still felt today. Peter McAtamney, principal of Wine Business Solutions, then shares inspirational ways to rise above self-interest. He defines what the “common good is” and illustrates how the Fine Wine community can benefit from collaborative working.
podcast· 1h 10m· Ep 15The Power of Collective Intelligence - In Conversation with Emile Servan Schreiber
This week we meet French researcher Emile Servan Schreiber to discuss the power of collective intelligence , and the different ways to harness, measure and maximise the efficiency of our joined brains. As we navigate our way through the "wisdom of crowds", we also explore how women and diversity can help build better and smarter organisations. Dr Emile Servan-Schreiber holds a PhD in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University in the US, as well as undergraduate degrees in mathematics and computing. He is the managing director of Hypermind which operates in both France and the US, and creates prediction markets.
podcast· 1h 03m· Ep 14The Language of Wine: In conversation with Eric Asimov and Stephen Satterfield
This week New York-based wine marketer Erica Nonni facilitates a conversation between Eric Asimov and Stephen Satterfield about the language of wine. Eric Asimov is the New York Times’ Wine Critic. His weekly column appears in the Food section of The Times. He is also the author of How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto, and Wine With Food: Pairing Notes and Recipes From The New York Times. Stephen Satterfield is a food writer, multimedia producer and founder of Whetstone Magazine, a beautiful publication about food origins, culture and the anthropology of food. These two leading voices in the wine industry share a curiosity and sense of responsibility when it comes to how we communicate around the complex topic of wine. Does language provide or hinder access to wine information? How does it relate to the assessment of wine and to regionalism, fundamental to traditional wine producing areas? Should there be a universal language in wine? This conversation, which took place at the July
podcast· 1h 01m· Ep 13Thriving through Generational Shifts - In conversation with Bill & Will Harlan
This week we are extremely pleased to welcome a trio of Fine Wine legends. Acclaimed journalist Elaine Chukan Brown meets living icons Bill & Will Harlan, for an exclusive and very intimate discussion on transmission where Father and son discuss their evolving relationship through Harlan Estate’s and Promontory’s milestones. As Will prepares to take over from his dad, they share with us the next steps of their 200-year plan. This interview was recorded prior to the fires currently devastating Napa and Sonoma wine countries, affecting some of Bill and Will's properties. As we are sharing this interview, we want to send our thoughts to both of them, and to the Napa and Sonoma wine communities. We are here and ready to help.
podcast· 59:47· Ep 12The geopolitics of wine - In conversation with Ambassador Anthony Gardner and Dr. Robin Nibblet
Today's episode is a recording of a conversation facilitated by Trisha de Borchgrave between Ambassador Anthony Gardner and Dr. Robin Nibblett on regulations, trade and tariffs that took place during the July 2020 Fine Minds 4 Fine Wines Global Think Tank. Ambassador Anthony Gardner, whose illustrious career straddles international finance, politics and law, served as one of the most successful US ambassadors ever to the European Union, from 2014-2017 under President Obama. He's also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations in the US, and produces wine in Tuscany. Dr. Robin Nibblet is the beloved director and chief executive of Chatham House since 2007. Prior to that he was Executive VP at CSIS in Washington DC, another one of the US's leading foreign policy think tanks, where he also ran the Europe programme and led its initiative for a renewed transatlantic partnership. Trisha de Borchgrave, is a current affairs writer and senior associate at the Global Women Leaders Strategic Ph
podcast· 48:54· Ep 11Inside the World Health Organisation - Planing ahead, with Pr David Heymann CBE
This week with Pr David Heymann and Karina Robinson, we are getting inside the the World Health Organisation (WHO) to learn how WHO is addressing the Covid-19 pandemic, what's working, what's not, and ultimately how the wine trade can plan ahead in such context. Professor Heymann, teaching at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is now working with the WHO to combat Covid-19. He has spent 22 years working with WHO in Geneva, on secondment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has been at the forefront of battling AIDS, malaria, measles, tuberculosis and polio, and he also coordinated the global response to SARS. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his service to global public health.
podcast· 58:23· Ep 10Tech investing to disrupt the fine wine world - In conversation with Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz
Today, with Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz, founder of Expon Capital, we discuss the world of technology investing and how the current economic climate is affecting this space. Rodrigo shares his experience as an early stage investor in companies that meet the UN's Development Goals, discusses the four major technology milestones the world has seen thus far and his thoughts on how technology is, and should be used, to disrupt the fine wine world.
podcast· 48:55· Ep 9The power of experience and hospitality- The future of luxury travel - In conversation with Claire Soares
This week with Claire Soares, founder and CEO of Up in the air Life, a luxury travel agency based in the US, we discuss what luxury and hospitality will mean in a world post covid, and how to harness the power of experience to create milestones, memories and magic in wine tourism.