Ep. 602 Robert Joseph (5StarWines 2021 Special)

Ep. 602 Joy Livingston interviews Robert Joseph in this 5StarWines 2021 Special

Robert Joseph

Editor at Large, Meininger’s Wine Business International

Robert is a wine business consultant and an editorial consultant for Meininger’s Wine Business International, which he helped to launch in 2006. In 1983, after living in Burgundy for five years, he launched the Wine International magazine; set up the International Wine Challenge; became wine writer for the Sunday Telegraph and wrote his first book: The Wine Lists. He is the Chairman of the Wine Institute of Asia, and has chaired and launched wine competitions in several countries. Robert has been on the UK Who’s Who list since 2013, and the awards he has received include the Jacob’s Creek ‘Golden Vine’; ‘the Best Wine Guide in the World’; the Glenfiddich (twice); The Wine Guild of the United Kingdom Premier; the Marques de Caceres. He regularly appears on television and radio, and he is also regularly invited to lecture at the Wine & Spirits Educational Trust. Joseph is one of the trio behind Hugh Kevin & Robert Wines whose wines now sell over 2.5m bottles per year in 40 countries. His blog is The Joseph Report.

" I wear several hats in the wine world. These include wine production (as one of the trio behind Hugh, Kevin & Robert, with brands including le Grand Noir, Greener Planet; public speaking (MUST, Wine2Wine, FineMinds4FineWines, Nedbank/Vinpro etc); consultancy (to companies and generic organisations); industry journalism (as editor at large of Meininger's Wine Business International); and teaching - Burgundy Business School, Sonoma State etc).

Co-creator of realbizwine.com/

My next book - The Future of Wine has Changed will be published in June 2020)

Winner: 2018 Vinventions Award for Innovations

Specialties: wine evaluation, wine brand creation, publishing, industry analysis, public speaking, book authorship/editing/publishing."

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