Rating of the most powerful women in wine in the world
No Italians among the top 10 chosen by the magazine “The Drinks Business”. On the podium Gina Gallo, Jancis Robinson and Annette Alvarez Peters
Gina Gallo with her husband Boisset
Gina Gallo, the heir and technical director of the Gallo winery, is the most powerful woman in wine in the world. If the influence that comes from the billion bottles produced per year, then there is the husband, great French wine Jean-Charles Boisset. Together they make up one of the most formidable wine couples ever seen.
In second position of “The Drinks Business” list is Jancis Robinson the English Master of Wine. Tireless and with unquestioned authoritativeness Jancis has a column in the “Financial Times” and an intense activity on the web. Only on twitter she has 160.000 followers. Next step down on the podium we find Annette Alvarez Peters head buyer for Costco the major French quality wine importer in USA and fifth American retailer with a billion in purchases per year.
Following are Philippine de Rothschild from Chateaux Mouton, Lalou Bize-Leroy the great dame from Bourgogne, Danièle Ricard President of Pernod Ricard, the second company in the world for beverages.
In seventh position we find the Master of Wine Debra Meiburg, we received together the Premio Internazionale
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Vinitaly 2012. She has founded the main Asiatic wine competition.
To find the first Italian we must go to the 12th position where we find Gaia Gaja, Angelo’s daughter. It is she who travels
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the world over with the family bottles. A few positions down we find the elder of Piero Antinori’s daughters, the dynamic Albiera.
The creation of such a list signifies that there is an increase in importance of women in the wine world and their appearing in the “control rooms”. However we are still far away from there being equilibrium among the genders….women are growing in importance, mainly in Asia and they are numerous, but they still count less than men.
Read for you by Donatella Cinelli Colombini