Green Wine Future: Recent Episodes
David Furer, Michael Wangbickler
While planning for GREEN WINE FUTURE 2022, our effects upon Terra continue. So while we build for GWF22, join host David Furer and producer Michael Wangbickler for their weekly podcast. Each 30 minute episode will focus upon a range of sustainability topics of concern to the wine world with expert co-hosts and guests in wineries, academia, and organizations.
Guest Host Andrew Caillard discusses sustainability in Australia with guests Brett McKinnon, Chief Operations Officer at Pernod Ricard Winemakers and Sarah Descher, Head of Communications, Sustainability and Responsibility at Pernod Ricard.
Guest Host Andrew Caillard discusses sustainability in Australia with guests Brett McKinnon, Chief Operations Officer at Pernod Ricard Winemakers.
Guest Host Andrew Caillard discusses sustainability in Australia with guests Ben Harris, Viticulture Manager, Australia & New Zealand at Treasury Wine Estates.
Guest Host Andrew Caillard discusses sustainability in Australia with guests James March, Chief Executive Officer of Barossa Australia and Kerry Petty, Chief Supply Officer at Treasury Wine Estates.
As an adjunct to the GWF22 conference session featuring wineries from Denmark, Poland, and Patagonia this episode is co-hosted by Harper's EditorAndrew Catchpole. Joining us is his fellow Brit Simon Thorpe, CEO of Wines of Great Britain, sharing why it's the world's most noteworthy 'new' sparkling wine producing area. From across the Channel Burgundy's Etienne De Montille, justifiably famed for his native wines, tells us why he's not only entranced with his California project but why wines of Japan's Hokkaido island are worth exploring.
The roles of women in wine have expanded exponentially both in quantity and quality in recent years with initiatives for these deserving of analysis and further implementation. Co-Host Diana Hawkins, a winemaker from the US working in New Zealand, joins David in welcoming that country's NIcky Grandorge who's amongst her goals as Leadership & Communities Manager for its Winegrowers Association that of gender equity access. And making another welcome appearance in the Wine Future broadcast firmament is Laura Catena, MD of her family's eponymous Argentine estate and its Research Institute where she early on created hiring practices supportive of women.
Whether working with product logistics in production, distribution, or large retail sales, the issue of SUPPLY CHAINS is nothing new. However the implications of Covid have nudged this issue into the spotlight for every sector of the wine trade, not to mention that of the general public. For this episode, David's co-host is Alicia Towns Franken, VP of Archer Roose and a director for GWF22 NGO partner Wine Unify; their guests Sara Norell, a VP & Director at Sweden's Systembolaget and Claudio Cilveti, General Manager of Wines of Chile discuss a myriad of issues sharing both their problems and solutions.
Bloomberg's and The Wine Conversation podcast's Elin McCoy returns to welcome Moët Hennessy's Philippe Schaus as we discover how this CEO has overseen his company's many and diverse internal and external initiatives embracing sustainability with a special focus about its upcoming Living Soils Forum event in Provence France.
GWF's first all-European episode features David and his co-host, Marketing Professor Gergely Szolnoki of Germany's Geisenheim University (a GWF Academic Partner), querying France's Morgane Le Breton of her family's BLB Vignobles and General Director of Spain's Wine Market Observatory Rafael del Rey about the qualifications of what constitutes sensible approaches in the development and marketing of wines that are sustainable.
Find out when journalist Stacy Briscoe joins David in querying General Manager Jason Haas of California's Tablas Creek Vineyard, the Regenerative Organic Association’s first wine business to receive its certification and South Australia’s Richard Leask who, in addition to his role at his family’s Leask Agri management firm, is a Trustee of the Regenerative Viticulture Foundation.
In the first of two episodes, Bloomberg's Elin McCoy's perspective is coupled with David's when interviewing Birgit Cameron, the head and co-founder of Patagonia Provisions which in 2021 launched a unique portfolio of wine marketed in an equally unique fashion. How does its wine comport with the ethos that the famed outdoors clothing and equipment provider has founded its business upon?
Rob Symington of the eponymous Port producing family shares time with Spottswoode Estate's Molly Sheppard of Napa Valley discussing the standards and ways of meeting them in attaining the internationally acclaimed B Corp Status of enlightened capitalist sustainability. Joining David from London is Richard Siddle, the editor and inspiration behind The Buyer.
The first in a sub-series focusing upon the impact of Earth's changing climate upon our favorite drink, two of the world's leading wine climatologists share ideas about the causes, problems, and solutions brought by uncontrolled blazes from where they reside and focus upon--Australia and the US Left Coast. Future episodes include Emerging Regions and Business Matters.
A note on Dr. Rebecca Harris' passing:
We at Green Wine Future were privileged to briefly know and work with Dr. Rebecca Harris for the third of our podcasts focused upon the Climate Crisis's impact of Wildfires. Her estimable work in this on behalf of her native Australia was brought to our attention by Dr. Greg Jones who also shared this time with us in highlighting how these problems are multiplied and the means by which their mitigation may be managed. We'd looked forward to working with her further in the conference and, because of her critical work in this along with her gracious nature, now regret our inability to do so. She is missed.
The basics of fermentation is the generation of heat, alcohol, and CO2. How, as wine producers, do we account for, diminish, and repurpose the carbon dioxide we add? Learn its theories from one of the wine world's most accomplished academics and its practical applications by a bi-national vintner.
BIODIVERSITY: Italy North to South w/ co-host Michèle Shah and guests Gaia Gaja and Stella Wines' Gian Matteo Baldi
The first in a sub-series focusing upon the creation of supportive environmental and cultural systems for the betterment of Earth and the wines it provides, this features informative tales from one of Enotria's most illustrious names and an executive who's shifted gears with a potentially transformative new project. Future episodes will cover the Americas and the Antipodes.