The Women
Meet the giantesses of the grapes, the sirens of the soils.
Get to know the incredible women making the wines of today with our in-depth interviews Behind the Vine.
Cullen Wines - Margaret River, Australia
An Aussie powerhouse who has brought sustainable winemaking into the mainstream.
Le Vieux Pin - Okanagan Valley, Canada
A French native who is expanding what Canadian wines can accomplish in the Okanagan Valley.
Oxney Organic Estate - Sussex, England
A PR professional turned vintner running England’s largest Organic vineyard.
Cheramie Wines - Texas, USA
A winemaker dedicated to putting Texas wines on the map and exploring the vast potential of the Lone Star state.
AR Lenoble - Champagne, France
A tenacious woman carrying on the family tradition of producing spectacular Champagne.
La Stoppa - Rivervaro, Italy
A revolutionary winemaker putting her own spin on a family vineyard.
Domaine Agnès Paquet - Burgundy, France
A first-generation winemaker putting her personality into Burgundian classics.
Morasinsi Wine - Puglia, Italy
A producer calling her generation back home through letting Puglia’s soils sing.
Trossos del Priorat - Priorat, Spain
A science-minded oenologist whose respect for nature breathes life into the fruits of a very special land.
Domaine Mee Godard - Morgon, Beaujolais, France
An independent woman bringing finesse and age-worthy elegance into Beaujolais wines.
Cantina Marilina - Sicily, Italy
A daughter charting her own course in the family tradition of Sicilian winemaking.
Poças - Douro, Portugal
A muse of the soils in Douro, running the vineyards of her family’s centuries-old Port house.
Weingut Judith Beck - Burgenland, Austria
A next-generation winemaker being guided by biodynamic principles that let local grapes shine.
Chateau Leoville Barton & Langoa Barton - Bordeaux , France
A Bordeaux legend passing along her passion and wisdom to the next generation.
Schwaderer Wines - Chile
A confident experimenter who wants Chilean wines to bring lively enjoyment to every table.
Celler de l'Encastell & Les Rampoines - Priorat, Spain
An Argentinian native who brings life to Priorat’s vines and brings the biodiversity of the land out in her wines.
Cavalleri Winery - Franciacorta, Italy
A confident female winemaker’s daughter who brings art into Italy’s best kept sparkling secret.
Julia Schittler - Rheinhessen, Germany
A young go-getter who has brought quality and innovation to her family’s estate and crafted her own style and label.
San Polino - Montalcino, Italy
An anthropologist in the wine world who explores how entangled elements of grapes and place craft beautiful wines.
NANA Wine - Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
A determined woman refuting the idea of ‘impossible’ wine in the Israeli desert.
Chimney Rock - Napa Valley, California, USA
A science-minded artist of wine who diverged from her pre-med path to create beautiful wines of terroir in Stag’s Leap.
Casato Prime Donne & Fattoria del Colle Trequanda - Montalcino, Italy
A true wine pioneer who forged a path of opportunity for women in Tuscany through her Prime Donne project.
Cave de l'Orlaya - Fully, Switzerland
A passionate winemaker who felt the vine’s calling from a young age, now showing the variety and beauty of Swiss wines.
Blackbook Winery - London, England
A business and brand powerhouse expanding the accessibility of great winemaking through an urban winery in London.
Weingut Ansgar Clüsserath - Mosel Valley, Germany
A Riesling whisperer who marries tradition and innovation to get the best out of her family vines.
Sanford Winery & Loubud Wines - Sta. Rita Hills, California, USA
A cool climate grape connoisseur who delivers finesse and fun across her two projects in the Golden State.
Lyrarakis Wines - Crete, Greece
A Greek winemaker reviving indigenous grapes to tell ancient stories in a new light.
Hosmer Winery - Finger Lakes, New York, USA
A winemaker trained by experience who blends conviction with creativity in a young wine region.
Oliver’s Taranga - McLaren Vale, Australia
A 6th generation grower embodying her family’s entrepreneurial spirit with wines that showcase both classic and unexpected varietals.
CARBONISTE - Napa, California, USA
A winemaker spreading joy in the form of reimagined sparkling wine in California.
Maison Joseph Drouhin & Domain Drouhin Oregon - Burgundy, France & Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
A worldwide winemaker creating wines in one country that are steeped in history and in another that are based on discovery.
Fossil & Fawn - Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
An intrepid and passionate woman whose proof of concept wine launched an experimental career.
Laneberg Wine, Tyneside, England
A chemist whose urban winery makes quality wine a local product in the Northeast of England.
Brook & Bull & VITAL Winery - Walla Walla, Washington, USA
An athletic and community-minded winemaker who trains her senses and her vines to peak performance for the greater good.
Corti - Cugini - Franciacorta, Italy
A globe-trotting winemaker who returned to Italy to launch a new brand dedicated to the earth and its mission to make wine accessible.
Hossfeld Vineyards - Napa, California, USA
A Napa native who returned home after seeing the positive effect multi-generational wineries had on both family and land.
Domaine Balland - Sancerre, France
Two sisters who work side by side at their family’s domain with complementary skillsets in winemaking and business acumen.
Ash Wines - Austin, Texas, USA
An urban winemaker matching Texas grapes with Italian tradition to deliver exciting, unexpected results.
Cantina Sorres - Sardinia, Italy
Two sisters who use creative, sustainable winemaking to challenge ideas about Sardinia’s high alcohol wines.
Holus Bolus Winery and The Joy Fantastic Vineyard - Santa Barbara County, CA, USA
A Master of Wine who has realised the dream of owning and operating her own vineyard side by side with her husband.
MAKER Wine - California, USA
A business-minded wine lover who is making quality wines from passionate makers more accessible through an innovative format.
Division Wine Co. - Portland, Oregon, USA
An urban winemaker whose past and present collide in her French-inspired, boundary-breaking wines.
Texas, USA
A Texan vineyard manager who breathes new life into resilient vines so they can reach their full potential.
Bodegas Bentomiz - Axarquía, Sayalonga, Malaga, Spain
A winemaker who uses her own tastes and techniques to deliver unique wines that break with tradition in the south of Spain.
Double Canyon - Washington State, USA
A maker and doer who appreciates the journey of her wines, and the process and progress that inform where they end up.
Cave Caloz - Valais, Switzerland
An Organic Swiss winemaker who values living side by side with her vines and treats the resulting fruits with the utmost respect.
Ficomontanino - Chiusi, Tuscany, Italy
A winemaker who is guided by the natural cycles of the earth and seeks to transmit the light of the land into her wines.
Campbells Wines - Rutherglen, Australia
A 5th generation winemaker who sees grapes from bunch to bottle with a unique range of full-bodied still and treasured fortified wines.
Sonoma Cutrer - Sonoma, California, USA
A self-proclaimed Chardon-nerd who now crafts the very wine she fell in love with in the heart of Sonoma.
Lobban Wines - Penedès, Spain
A Scottish microbiologist who fell in love with Spain and embarked on a winemaking journey to put her own spin on its sparkling region.
Sorelle Bronca - Treviso, Italy
Half of a sisterly duo determined to redefine perceptions of Prosecco and help it claim its rightful place as a sparkling wine of great character.
Az. Agr. Philine Isabelle - Barolo, Italy
A biodynamic winemaker applying the principles of methodical craftsmanship to the traditional region of Barolo to create a wine of reflection.
Mas de Cadenet - Provence, France
A 7th generation winemaker who grew up in the rhythm of the vineyard and was called back to her home land in the foothills of the Sainte-Victoire.
amie - London, England
A wine entrepreneur who launched her brand amie during lockdown to represent the power of family, friends and of the good coming out of the bad.
Clos I Terrasses – Gratallops, Priorat, Spain
One of the original winemakers who brought a Spanish region back to its former glory and sees every vintage as the start of a new story.
Folc – Kent, England
A proud English Rosé wine brand co-founder who seeks to bring in and reflect the modern drinker and make women in wine the new normal.
Santolin Wines – Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia
A lo-fi winemaker who brings an inquisitive mind and a hard-working determination to help deliver a wine that is all about place and creativity.
Domaine des Malandes – Chablis, Burgundy, France
The daughter of one of the first women to run a winery in Chablis who weaves her mother’s influence into a vineyard shaped by millions of years of geology.
RAMONA – New York, NY, USA
A rule-breaking wine entrepreneur who believes that wine brands should enable consumers to access values-driven, ethically-sourced wines anytime, anywhere.
Maloof Wines – Oregon, USA
An ex-materials engineer who found a home in the winemaking process and crafts low-intervention wines dedicated to sustainability and community.
Nordlund – Copenhagen, Denmark
A winemaker at the forefront of the movement to find the Taste of Denmark - and prove that the country’s growing wine journey is one worth embarking on.
Unico Zelo – Adelaide Hills, Australia
An environmental scientist turned winemaker with a mission to help more people discover the category through natural, low-intervention wine.
Abel – Nelson-Tasman, New Zealand
An intrepid winemaker who brings family passion and expertise into a Chardonnay and Cider brand that seeks to carve it’s own path.
Domaine aux Moines – Loire Valley, France
A woman who always saw winemaking as her fate who loves to share and transmit her passion, joy and deep respect of nature in every bottle.
Tesselaarsdal – Hemel-en-Aarde, South Africa
A first-generation winemaker who is passionate about honouring her family legacy and who is determined to create a vineyard and winery that contributes to the economic revival of her home.
Nice Drinks – London, UK
An entrepreneur who brings disruption and functionality to bring the wine industry into the current times.
Podere Anima Mundi – Tuscany, Italy
A half-French, half-Polish former philosophy professor who cooperates with nature to create biodynamic, monovarietal wines in the heart of Tuscany.
Quintessa & Post and Vine – California, USA
A winemaker who uses her background in bio-chemistry to translate the stories of estates with deep soul and character into her wines.
Lelie van Saron – Hemel-en-Aarde, South Africa
A winemaker whose own journey with wine informs how she wants others to embrace the product into their culture and experience the powerful connections that can happen over a bottle.
Saurwein – Western Cape, South Africa
A passionate viticulturist who creates hand-crafted wines that seek to show the complex energetic exchange between vines, soil, grapes and fermentation.
Chateau Lamartine - Cahors, France
The brand steward of this family vineyard who is mixing old and new styles in a young, but historic French appellation.
Augeo Family Estate - Vranya Village, Struma Valley, Bulgaria
One half of the daughter-father duo continuing to honor the family tradition of winemaking in Bulgaria.
Chateau de Miniere & Chateau de Suronde - Loire Valley, France
An entrepreneurial and inventive winemaker who built her wine estate from scratch to be a destination for wine lovers, artists, naturalists and everyone in-between.
Bird in Hand - Adelaide Hills, Australia
A winemaker who puts as much effort into the soils of the vineyard plots as she does into the final product.
Hana Makgeolli - Brooklyn, NY, USA
A home brewer who turned a family tradition into a brand and whose wine speaks to the strong, feminine history of Korean fermentation.
Agricola Brandini - La Morra, Italy
A modern winemaker bringing biodiversity, organic living and fresh ideas to her family winery in Barolo.
Corison - Napa Valley, California, USA
One of the original Napa Valley women whose wines strike a balance of power and elegance.
Auriel - Monferrato, Italy
A biodynamic winemaker who channels a different frequency of energy to develop wines from an under-appreciated Italian grape - Grignolino.
Furnace Projects - Herefordshire, England
A winemaker whose ambition reaches far beyond wine with the hope of creating an artist's retreat and hospitality destination in the little-known wine-producing region of England’s Midlands.
Chateau Angludet - Margaux, Bordeaux, France
A woman who is carrying on her grandmother’s legacy by taking the helm of a storied estate in Margaux.
Château Doyac - Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux, France
An avid surfer and winemaker who is redefining her family’s estate around biodynamic principles and modern techniques.
Maison Camille Thiriet - Burgundy, France
An adopted Burgundian, Camille is a winemaker who turned a passion for fragrance into an appreciation of wine and supports many women in the field through her own organization: Mi Filles Mi Raisins.
Ata Rangi - Martinborough, New Zealand
A pioneer in the field whose winemaking is guided by listening to the vineyard and immersing herself in the soil.
Souleil Vin de Bonté - France
The co-founder of a wine company that brings the convivial energy of the French seaside into your glass and helps you to support its conservation with every sip.
Terah Wine Co. California, USA
An entrepreneurial winemaker who combines a traditional respect for organic farming and repairing soils with experimental varieties and blends for an exciting and surprising portfolio.
Aslina, Stellenbosch, South Africa
An iconic South African winemaker whose trailblazing story of breaking barriers is an inspiration to women around the world, and who crafts her own wine in honor of the strength and determination of her grandmother.
Dirty Radish, Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
A tastemaker, winemaker, sommelier, and business leader who loves to connect wine drinkers to her favorite places through her travel company and her own wines.
Margins Wine, Santa Cruz Mountains, California, USA
A passionate viticulturist and winemaker who is bringing underrepresented varietals from the ‘margins’ into the contemporary natural wine scene.
Tessier Winery, California, USA
A microbiologist turned winemaker whose wines exist at the intersection of big picture creativity and minute decision points.
Celler De Les Aus & Alta Alella, Catalonia, Spain
A winemaker whose passion for agricultural development has led to a career spanning from working at the UN to crafting Cava in coastal Spain.
Lichtenberger-Gonzalez, Breitenbrunn, Austria
A passionate winemaker who marries her own Galician history with Austrian history to make unique and vibrant biodynamic wines.
Ebony Essence Wines, Napa, California, USA
Two sisters who grew up with Napa as their backyard are on a mission to bring inclusivity and accessibility into the wine world.
Wildflower Winery, Ventura, California, USA
A winemaker who honors her background and the Earth's beautiful gifts by crafting wines made from intentionally-farmed grapes and growers.
Altipiano, Escondido, California, USA
A winemaker who brought her love of Tuscan reds home to California after fire devastation provided the opportunity for rebirth.
Baia’s Wine, Meore Obcha, Georgia
A Georgian winemaker who built her brand alongside her siblings, and whose family energy is transmitted into every bottle.
Pelletiere Estate, Paso Robles, California, USA
A lifelong entrepreneur who took a distressed vineyard of Italian varietals and remodeled it into her legacy.
Story of Soil, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
A winemaker who uses minimal intervention to show off the topicity and terroir of exceptionally farmed land in Santa Barbara County.
Quaintrelle Wines, Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
A winemaker who says production helped her rediscover who she was and who sees her young brand as a place to play and express the flirty side of Pinot Noir.
Champagne Philippe Gonet, Champagne, France
A computer and aerospace engineer who returned home with her brother to fulfil their destiny as winemakers.
Loella, Central Coast, California, USA
A California native, this winemaker and wine distributor wants to make natural wine accessible and proudly creates ‘porch-pounders’ for everyone to enjoy.
Weingut Bianka und Daniel Schmitt, Rheinhessen, Germany
A winemaker who works alongside her husband to create healthy vineyards and sustainable wines that are the true definition of balance.
Corollary Wines, Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
An ex-tech winemaker dedicated to contributing knowledge, understanding, and holistic appreciation of sparkling wine in Oregon.
Atlas Swift Wines, Franschhoek, South Africa
A winemaker who is seeking to expand the idea of Chardonnay in South Africa. Each of her ‘ladies’ illustrates the character of the wines and reflects the connection between land, farmer, and winemaker.
Benazzoli, Verona, Italy
Winemakers who strive to let grapes speak for themselves and use wine labels as catalysts to change the conversation from wines made for women to wines made by women.
Vulgo Ritter, Carinthia, Austria
A mechanical engineer turned winemaker who built and designed her own winery where she creates wines that truly reflect her Alpine home.
Arabilis, Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
An aspiring grower-producer with a doctorate in food science who works alongside her husband to make Oregon sparkling wine a national conversation.
Ovum Wines, Portland, Oregon, USA
A genetics and immunology academic-turned-winemaker who fell in love with wine through the Oregon landscape and its similarities to her home, Serbia.
Mullin, Sri Lanka & USA
The co-founder of a sustainably-farmed mulling spices brand bringing experimentation into wine drinking and providing economic opportunity.
Stargazer, Tasmania
A winemaker who delivers stellar Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with a distinctly Tasmanian identity.
South by South West, Margaret River, Australia
Winemakers who play with vintage and variation to showcase the best of Margaret River varietals.