Real Business of Wine

The future of wine from the experts who are making it happen.

Real Business of Wine is the go-to series for today's wine professionals.

If you want to know about what really makes the international wine industry tick, and how it is likely to change over the next few years, the Real Business of Wine is for you. From the smallest estate to the largest multinational; from financing and production to distribution and marketing, this is where the world’s leading experts come to share their experience, expertise and opinions. Every RBW session brings together top professionals from across the world to share their expertise and experience on a specific topic with a global community.

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Wine Writing: Fact vs Opinion

Writers have been telling us forever that Riesling has taken over wine lists, that Sherry is the hottest thing, and that nobody drinks buttery Chardonnay anymore. But none of these things are true. We look at the tricky relationship between fact and opinion-presented-as-fact in wine reporting. With Blake Gray, former wine editor of the San…

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Brazil: Brave New World

According to Wine Intelligence, 20 million Brazilians drink wine at least once a week and 31% of Brazilian consumers “like to take their time to purchase wine” and consider wine to be “important” to their lifestyles. Leading journalist and publisher Marcelo Capello and Wine Intelligence Brazil Country Manager Rodrigo Lanari introduce the world’s sixth most…

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Inside Bordeaux with Jane Anson

If it weren’t for Covid-19, Decanter Bordeaux correspondent Jane Anson would be on tour in the UK signing her new book, Inside Bordeaux. Instead, she’s still in France – and with us to discuss the secrets of what makes that region tick – and how she has successfully managed to produce five books without going…

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Talking New Zealand

New Zealand is one of the newest parts of the New World of wine. The Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc that catapulted it onto the global stage was only planted in the 1970s, but within 20 years, New Zealand’s white wines were commanding the highest average prices in the world. Then came Otago Pinot Noir which has…

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Flying Winemakers, with Nayan Gowda

The only former professional chef to have made wine in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Hungary, England, France, Ukraine and Kazakhstan and Norway, Nayan Gowda is currently working in the high-altitude vineyards of Bolivia. The internet connection was far from perfect, which explains the less-than-brilliant quality of the video and sound. And the fact that we…

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The Labels, with Neil Tully MW

For most wines, the difference between commercial success and failure may largely depend on the words and images printed on a small piece of paper. For this unique webcast, we invite award-winning designer Neil Tully MW to share his insights into how he goes about working with the producer to create a label that will…

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Building a Brand, Italy

What does it take to build a resilient brand? Today, we talk with top producers, Marilisa Allegrini, Roberto Bava and Jose Rallo of Donnafugata, and UK importer, David Gleave MW, about positioning, communication, perception, and relevance…at home and abroad.

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