Small Fortune Podcast
di Global Wine Partners
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Our podcast is about the wine business, how difficult it is to be successful and why. It’s also about the strategies that various participants in the industry have used to overcome the challenges inherent in making and selling wine. And it is simply about telling the stories of the wine business.
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- Ep 87: How to Create a Best Place to Work with Drea Helfer · 34 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 87Business owners and managers who aspire to be so admired and appreciated by their staff that they make the North Bay Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work” list would do well…
- Ep 86: What’s New in Finance and Markets with AWG’s Tim Allen · 37 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 86Carol invited her friend Tim Allen, the founder of accounting firm AWG (Allen Wine Group) to join her for a conversation about a number of topics in wine industry finance…
- Ep 85: Realm Cellars: From Struggling Brand to Top Napa Estate Winery · 39 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 85When Scott Becker acquired virtual brand Realm Cellars in 2012 the business was heading for bankruptcy, but the brand had a great reputation. In this interview Scott tells the…
- Sam Bilbro & Carol Discuss the Federal Reserve and the Market for Italian Varietals Revised · 33 min · Stagione 1This episode is a re-release of Episode 4 of the Small Fortune podcast that was originally released in September 2023, before host Carol Collison cobbled together a “good enough”…
- Ep 84: Realm’s Scott Becker: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants · 26 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 84The first episode of a 2-part interview with Scott Becker tells the story of how he entered the wine business and the mentor relationships he cultivated that helped him advance…
- Ep 83: Tomorrow Cellars: Wine When You Don’t Want the Buzz with Tracy Sweeney · 43 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 83Tracy Sweeney had a big job managing the DTC operations for six luxury Napa brands in the Treasury Wine portfolio when she decided to leave to join a partner in founding Tomorrow…
- Ep 82: Global Wine Sourcing Pro Duncan Marks on Making Business Travel Work · 38 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 82Host Carol Collison talks to Nexterra Wine’s Director of Global Wine Sourcing Duncan Marks, a passionate and effective business traveler, about how his private label wine company…
- Ep 81: Supporting America’s Grape Growers for the Long Haul with Stuart Spencer · 40 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 81As today’s guest Stuart Spencer - grape grower, winemaker, and Executive Director of the Lodi Winegrape Commission – puts it in today’s interview, the US is the only major wine…
- Ep 80: Martha Barra on Mendocino and Organic Wine · 36 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 80Barra of Mendocino was founded by Charlie Barra, who began planting grapes in Mendocino in 1955. Martha joined the enterprise through marriage in 1980. Hear about the beauty of…
- Ep 79: Stephen Brauer: Route to Market is More Than Distributor Alignment · 40 min · Episodio 128The Small Fortune Podcast is centered on the stories of entrepreneurial and small business success in the wine industry, but the lessons from large company management can be…
- Ep 78: Randall Grahm: New Ideas in Terroir at Popelouchum Estate · 43 min · Episodio 125Randall Grahm is a highly creative person whose ideas have been expressed in a number of well-known and successful brands. At various times during his career his Big House…
- Ep 77: Glenn Proctor on the Future Grape Market and More · 38 min · Episodio 124Glenn Proctor’s family has been growing grapes on a ~200-acres ranch in the Dry Creek Valley since 1904. Today he is not only a grape grower but a proprietor of a small family…
- Ep 76: Building a Luxury Service Brand with Silverado Farming’s Pete Richmond · 37 min · Episodio 123It seems unusual to describe a B2B business as a luxury offering but as Silverado Farming Company has evolved over its 25 years, that is the positioning that its founder Pete…
- Ep 75: A Short Course in Publicity with O.G. Julie Ann Kodmur · 37 min · Episodio 122Today’s wine business has been shaped by pioneers like Jule Ann Kodmur, who worked on an early Sotheby’s wine auction, and then worked for many important distributors and wine…
- Ep 74: Selling Paso Robles with Jenny Heinzen · 44 min · Episodio 120Jenny Heinzen is the Broker and Principal of Vineyard Professional Real Estate in Paso Robles, CA. She is the leading seller of winery and vineyard properties in this market. Why…
- Ep 73: Niagara: The Hottest Wine Region in the World with Paul Speck · 37 min · Episodio 119With American wines off Canadian shelves and tourists staying home and visiting local attractions, now is a great time to be a wine producer in Canada. Hear what’s happening in…
- Ep 72: How to Wind Down a Wine Business the Right Way · 42 min · Episodio 118Back in mid-2024, Episode #25, Carol interviewed Megan Bell, owner of Margins Winery in Santa Cruz, California. Megan had been profiled in the SF Chronicle about the increasing…
- Ep 71: Far Niente Board Chair Carol Reber on How to Climb to the Top · 33 min · Episodio 117Among many the keys to professional success in corporate environments that are discussed in this episode are: make what’s best for the business your “north star” (then your…
- Ep 70: Sell More Now with Enolytics' Cathy Huyghe · 34 min · Episodio 114Cathy Huyghe began her career as a writer for Forbes Magazine, writing on the wine business and related business issues. In 2009 she and her co-founder launched a data analytics…
- Ep 69: Business Strategy with Sun Tzu and Stoller’s Gary Mortensen · 42 min · Episodio 112Learn about how Gary Mortensen, President of Stoller Wine Group thinks about business strategy. Gary shares lots of great ideas about how to think creatively about your wine…
