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The lovely Amanda McCrossin, Wine Personality & Sommelier joins us for this episode of the APWASI Wine Buzz Interviews.

As a Director of Sales of NASDAQ, fortune 500 company, Sonal left her company to pursue a career in wine. Now she owns multiple successful wine companies.  

Sonal's mission is to share her knowledge and passion of wine to India and has seen changes already in their drinking culture.   

Learn more about Sonal's passion and how she is helping to shape India's wine industry and what the future lies ahead for this country.

Klaas De Jong is a filmmaker, wine lover and cultural entrepreneur. He is the producer of Wine Masters TV, a documentary series premium wine channel. He saw that there was a gap in the market that needed more content on wine, so he embarked on this journey and has loved it since. He has never once worked for anyone, and has always been an entrepreneur, which is something that we dive into in this podcast.

Christelle Chene is the International Affairs Director & Worldwide Brand Ambassador for Ningxia Xige Estate. During this episode she talks about her career, how the Xige winery differs from other wineries in China and the difficulty for Chinese wines to attain premier positions in the world of wine.

Russ Mann, CEO of WineBid shares his insights into the online wine auction industry and his vision for WineBid in the upcoming years.

Dr. Keith Herndon is a man who wears many hats. He's a Journalism Professor, Executive Director of Cox Institute at UGA's Grady College and APWASI Certified Wine Educator. However, he didn't start off his career in teaching, but as a reporter. Over the years he discovered his passion in wine and how important wine culture and history all plays into the overall experience of wine. Learn about his career journey, his passion for wine and how wine education is changing in the media and culture landscape in this new generation of technology. 

Marinela Ardelean is a Wine and Spirit Expert, Entrepreneur & Wine Author. In this episode, she shares her career in the wine industry, her insight into wine judging trends and why she is so passionate about promoting Romanian wines.

Check out more about Marinela on her website here. 

Natalie Wang is the Editor and founder of Vino-Joy. She shared her insight with us on the challenges that China is facing in the wine industry when the reputation of China's wines is usually associated with - counterfeit. China is an up-and-coming major player in wine, but much more needs to be done to protect the wineries' brand and reputation. Her website, Vino-Joy is your ultimate source for everything related to Chinese wines. 

Joined by Dr. Iwan Diestchi join us as our first guest in this series, we dive into why mentors are important in your career, the philosophy of "how to create an unmatched experience for your guests to last a life time",  the next big thing in wine in Asia and generational liquor choices in hotels.

Dr. Dietschi is a highly motivated, driven, quality focused, successful International trained Swiss Executive with over 25 years of luxury hotel experience, mostly with Ritz-Carlton hotels, in four Continents and 13 countries. He has a proven record of accomplishment of exceeding financial performance targets and achieving consistently high employee- and guest engagement scores.