Wine People

Christopher Barnes

Owner of Grape Collective, a wine magazine and wine store concept in New York. Documentary maker and story teller.

Giovan Battista Cappello

Giovan works as consultant winemaker for Uva Sapiens. He boasts experience at wineries in Italy, New Zealand, Australia, USA and England. He is also developing expertise in biodynamics in Tuscany.

Hayley Black

Hayley’s wine adventures started in restaurants 15 years ago and she now works for an American based importer. She holds the WSET Diploma in Wine and the VinItaly International Italian Wine Expert.

Natasha Bresliska

Natasha worked in sales and marketing for one of North Macedonia's largest producers. She now works as a consultant. She also judges in various wine competitions.

Paul Caputo

Paul Caputo is a UK based wine writer, judge and critic. Co-founder of Vinorandum. He is a VinItaly International Academy Ambassador and writes regularly for various publications.

Mihaela Cojocaru

Mihaela is a freelance marketing consultant based in the South of Italy. A wine enthusiast, an educator and DipWSET and AIS Sommelier qualified, she works on a number of wine marketing projects.

Paul Demeulenaere

Ran Wine Mosaic, a promotional company for small, boutique wineries. Dabbled in politics. Now working as a wine merchant in Provence.

Marco de Sá

Marco founded the Martins de Sá Port brand and is known for trying to innovate the category, introducing the first port and tonic canned spritzer in the UK.

Xiaowen Du

Xiaowen Du is marketing manager and an assistant winemaker at the Tuscan estate of Avignonesi.

Andrea Eby

Susana Gonzalez

Founder of www.chilefoodandwine.com - enotourism and tastings in South America. Susana consults on PR for different companies, including Brandaboutwine.com and recently www.catador.cl.

Joan Harnish

Joan has an international management and corporate events background and consults in the wine industry.

Tara Jabbour

Born in Lebanon and based in Italy, Tara is an export manager with Agriment and spends her time trying to open up international markets fro Italian producers.

Jane Josifovski

Founder / Managing Partner / Travel Designer at Macedonia Experience, spending time between Skopje and Prespa where I help building a success story in upscale rural tourism with Villa Prespa.

Đurđa Katić

Durda is an accomplished sommelier and well known professional in Serbia. Vice president of the Serbian Sommelier Association. She is a wine judge at various international competitions.

Maddalena Laluce

Maddalena is a winemaker in the Aglianico del Vulture DOC in Basilicata. She works with her father in the family winery in Ginestra.

Ryan Lewis

Ryan runs Hidden Vines, a wholesaler and retailer of Italian wines in the north of England.

Kristine Mansuy

Kristine is a marketing and wine tourism specialist, offering digital media services to the wine trade.

Tullia Mantella

Tullia Mantella is an International public relations professional focused on promoting Italian wine and cultural tourism abroad.

Emanuela Mastrodomenico

Emanuela runs her family winery in Barile where she produces Aglianico del Vulture.

Fabio Mecca

Fabio is a highly regarded winemaker and oversees operations at Paternoster. He consults for a number of other wineries across the South of Italy.

Lauren Mowery

Lauren Mowery serves on Decanter Magazine’s US editorial team, after spending five years at Wine Enthusiast. She travels for six months of the year, specialising in Italian, Spanish, and Greek wines.

Atanasov Sasko

Sasko is well known in North Macedonia for his wine and hospitality background. He is now manager at Chateau Sopot.

Richard Siddle

Owner of The Buyer magazine. Richard Siddle is a well known and respected journalist and editor. Former editor at Harpers Wines & Spirit.

Ivana Simjanovska

Co-founder of Macedonia’s first wine club, Ivana Simjanovska has been promoting the country’s produce since 2007. A writer and critic of international acclaim, she is editor in chief of www.vino.mk.

Stefania Tacconi

An expert in communication and marketing for wine business, she has built solid relationships with journalists from one end of the globe to another. She also writes for I Grandi Vini and Siena News.

Valeria Tenison

Sommelier at a 1* Michelin restaurant in Bordeaux. Winner of the 2018 Best Female Sommelier of Russia and a runner-up in Ruinart Sommelier Challenge France 2019. Writes for Vinorandum.

Elisabetta Tosi

Elisabetta is a freelance journalist and copywriter. Ghostwriter on demand. Skilled in wine, wine tourism, and digital communication.

Joe-Assaad Touma

Running Chateau St. Thomas in the Bekaa Valley.

Monika Zakrzewska

Monika Zakrzewska is a certified sommelier (FISAR and WSET3), with an in-depth knowledge of the wine industry and experience in client acquisition, wine events, wine education and distribution.