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After many years writing about, tasting and judging wine, I have created a place for conversation with the people whose thoughts and actions have shaped the wine industry and the wine you taste in the glass.
Oliver onWine gives you the chance to meet and hear from industry leaders and shapers, many of whom typically avoid the public gaze and let their work do the talking for them. So I’ll be introducing you to groundbreaking winemakers, business leaders and owners, impactful marketers and thought leaders. I don’t need to agree with those I offer this platform to, and I hope to engage with many with whom I have argued over the years!
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Jeremy Oliver.
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About Jeremy Oliver
The author of 30 wine books, Jeremy Oliver has spent decades exploring and writing about wine as a critic, judge and speaker.
Through his work with Oliver’s Wines, he continues to evaluate wines from across Australia and the world, while engaging with the broader cultural and economic questions surrounding wine today.
Jeremy also speaks at industry and consumer events and provides mentoring services to wine business operators and owners.
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Episode title: Surviving Wine’s Non-Existential Crisis
Guest name: Robert Joseph
Description: Exploring wine’s present and future with one of the world’s top thought leaders about wine
Former leading UK wine critic, creator of The International Wine Challenge and current industry thought leader, Robert Joseph is a deeply respected and internationally recognised free thinker who has also turned his talents and expertise towards making wine in France and Georgia.
Never afraid to call things as he sees them, Joseph has the kind of restless mind that is always thinking about the many influences affecting international wine business and how the industry might better respond to the myriad of challenges it currently faces – from changes in consumer tastes, climate, packaging, wine consumption and even weight-loss tablets. Based in Bordeaux, a wine region shrinking before his very eyes, he offers opinions based on experience, insight and candour.
In this episode of Oliver onWine, Jeremy Oliver talks with Robert Joseph about these challenges and what the industry really needs to do to adapt to the many changes occurring around it.
In this episode Robert talks about:
- Challenges facing the global wine industry
- It’s not just the bulk regions that are in trouble
- Emerging health consciousness
- Changing drinking habits
- Weight-loss drugs
- Why is all wine sold in a single form of packaging?
- Should winemakers take notice of what their buyers wish to drink?
- Are non-alcoholic wines competing against normal wine?
- Why the Australian wine industry is struggling in the UK, the US and China
- There’s room for niches in wine production
- Robert’s own wine projects in France and Georgia?
- What do consumers really want?
- Are they wine brands or just labels?
- Lessons for owners of would-be wine brands
- Makers need to build relationships with their customers
Guest:
Robert Joseph changed direction around twenty years ago from being a prominent UK-based wine critic and wine show entrepreneur to his current incarnation as a producer of wine in the south of France and Georgia, as well as an influential thought leader and owner of the highly recommended Wine Thinking Substack (https://robertejoseph.substack.com/). Robert is typically well informed and is never afraid to speak his mind.
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