S2E7 In this week's episode we are joined by president of Bottle Diplomacy, Ben Stender. Ben outlines the complicated legal barriers of importing wine into the US and how he helps exporting businesses get their wine to American consumers. We also chat about the current state of the US market and changing consumer behaviour. 

In this week’s episode we are joined by Managing Director at Deconstruct Digital, Emma Marks. We chat about the digital deficit in the wine business and how Covid-19 has provided growing opportunity in the digital space. Emma covers Social media, geo-advertising, SEM and EDM, and highlights the importance of entertaining, engaging and informing audiences. 

In this weeks episode we are joined by Tony Battaglene who is the Chief Executive at Australian Grape and Wine. We discuss trade, health, environment and tech.

In this weeks episode we talk provenance, consumer engagement and brand protection in international markets.

Our guests are Scott Evers from Wine Provenance, a leading world expert in wine fraud detection and Rachel Triggs, former winemaker, General Counsel and General Manager of Market Access for Wine Australia.

Bonus Episode: We catch up with Matt Bahen from DeBortoli Wines to talk all things China during Australia's first COVID-19 lockdown.

Bonus Episode: Darren and Simon catch up with Asia market specialists Jing Cao from Chinese Language & Cultural Advice and Richard Beere from Fastrak Asian Solutions. This conversation is an early look at the many changes that COVID-19 caused in East Asian market dynamics, with a focus on China.

This week we talk to Chris Kammer, CEO of Access Wine Services about all aspects of logistics into the USA in a pre-record (see the bonus episodes for the full interview). The live audience join in to discuss the last weeks happenings in wine and more.

This week our guest is Rob Parsons, Director of RJJ Investments - owners of the Wallaroo Marina Hotel on South Australia's Yourke Peninsular and former owner of Treasury on King William in Adelaide. We talk COVID, post-lockdown tourism and the short-term future of hospitality. As usual our live guests get involved in the discussion.

Bonus Episode: Beth and Amber founded virtualwineevents.com during the 2020 COVID-19 European lockdowns. We were keen to hear their insights about the world of virtual wine events to better understand how wine businesses can develop and distribute virtual tastings as a product.

Bonus Episode: The South Australian Branch of the Australian China Business Council interviewed Simon as part of their 'Recovery, Reset and Refocus' Zoom meetings program. Simon talked story about industry trends and selling wine, food (and other things) in China.