The wine market entered 2020 full of gusto and positivity but as the bizarre events of the year began to unfurl, the market’s direction for the coming year initially looked uncertain. One thing we knew for sure is that wine had a history of…
Véronique Sanders, President of the world-renowned Chateau Haut-Bailly joined us on the show to share their approach to winemaking, her family’s history at the chateau and surviving the challenging 2019 En Primeur campaign. Véronique has a huge amount of experience and has overseen the production of some truly exceptional wines at Chateau Haut-Bailly. If you […]
Wine educator and sommelier Cristie Norman joins us from LA to speak about her online wine courses, setting up the United Sommeliers Foundation and her passion for wine. We also discuss some of the personal challenges she has faced, diversity in the wine world and how representation can be a driver for change. Connect with […]
Full Auto Transcript [00:00:00] Hi, welcome to the Cult & Boutique show. My name is Daniel Patterson. I’m very excited to be joined by one of the brightest, most passionate, innovative people on the wine scene. She’s the president of the United Sommelier Foundation, the CEO of the online wine course, and recently awarded the […]
Zoran Ristanovic joins us on The Cult and Boutique Show. We caught up with Zoran Ristanovic, Managing Director and Wine Buyer for Richmond-based City Wine Collection, who dropped by to tell us about growing up in Bosnia, viticulture & winemaking. Zoran also shared his opinions on Bordeaux En Primeur, spotting future wine superstars and the […]
Full Auto-Transcript Cult and Boutique (00:00): Hi there. Welcome to the Cult and Boutique Show, uh, with us today is a guest who happens to be a neighbour of ours. Um, his name is Zoran. He works for sissy wine collections, and he’s here to join me today on a very beautiful day here in […]
After spending two decades working with Justerini & Brooks, Emirates Airlines and Goedhuis & Co., Mark Robertson joined the Dreweatts Wine department as a consultant in 2017. Working at the sharp end of the wine market, Mark has been involved with some of the most important wine sales across the UK, Middle East & Asia […]
Full Auto-Transcript [00:00:00] Hi. Welcome to the Cult and boutique show. Joining me today via Putney Bridge to collect a ’66 Chateau Latour jeroboam [00:00:12] It’s none other than Mark Robertson head of Dreweatt’s wine department. Mark, thanks for joining us. How are you today? [00:00:17] Very well. A pleasure to be here. Thank you […]
There’s no denying that we are living in interesting times but it’s at times like this that local businesses can recognise the benefits of working closely with one another. Cult & Boutique’s Managing Director Enzo Giannotta paid a visit to local boutique hotel and restaurant, Bingham Riverhouse, to meet with their Restaurant & Bar Manager, […]
We were recently lucky enough to try an interesting wine from Adelaide Hills producer Bird In Hand. The 2010 ‘Nest Egg’ Cabernet Sauvignon was part of a small parcel of rare library vintages made available through the UK’s Majestic to raise funds for the South Australian County Fire Service (SACFS). The Nest Egg label is reserved […]
