Chair of the Board of Trustees, Wine Spirit Education
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“it's that in terms of demand, the more you see, the more you and you hear about it and you taste and the quality is there. So, I think the demand side of it is following the fact that it's more available, but also, you know, it started just because a few producers back in the late 80s, early 90s decided to start making...”
“we got to a certain size and scale where we wanted to increase our sort of brand presence. And they were looking for another sponsor of this particular area and it all came together rather nicely.”
“I don't want it to become really gimmicky and marketing-led... I think it's just being mindful that it's used for a good purpose, not for a marketing purpose is important.”
“the wine industry particularly really needs a very vibrant hospitality industry in order to have success as well... you can see there's some good shoots of recovery coming through there and I think maybe not next year but the year after I'm hoping for hospitality's sake that consumer confidence gains.”
“we've tried going on a state by state basis we've tried a more national approach with somebody who can go and states and it's incredibly difficult I don't and I honestly don't think you know timings everything as well we you know we covid particularly obviously didn't help anything at all so we're kind of back to squar...”
“the wines win awards and that's really good but we're also a business and we need to run the business well and I think that and have ambition and have those things and I think I think having both sides just reflects really really well back on on the family as well in terms of of our I suppose our ambitions really and a...”
“sustainability and economics do actually go very well together even though the upfront cost can sometimes be a little higher than perhaps something else”
“we've had some really really difficult times where you're building stock and you know you've got I mean with traditional methods sparkling and that's all we do so you bottle in year one and you sell in year three so if you think you're growing if you're growing your production over those three years you're just storing...”
“the crisis moments for me is when i've had personal and business is combining because i think if you've got one you can even you know you could you can you can manage it provided the business is going okay if you've got both it's actually extraordinarily different and it impacts because of the high state of emotion tha...”
“when i talk about sustainability it's it's not just about the environmental sustainability which is obviously one pillar of that but it's how do you make the business properly sustainable across it all so so you've got to be profitable the business has to run profitably to be sustainable um and the way that businesses...”
“sparkling wines were back when we started probably in the minority and now very much in the majority and the quality etc around that has really enabled us to expand into international markets”
“we're fifty percent with probably less of the yields that champagne would easily be in a year so you know factor that in you know you kind of think we're actually quite good value if I'm honest”
“I think personally it's been sort of the transition after my dad passed away in 2014 and I would claim sort of fully fledged into the leadership of the business and my brother alongside me and I think from my perspective is with wines that he had complete control over because he used to hint I'd used to I mean together...”
“I think the landscape is going to change quite dramatically I can't see a scenario where we just go from where we are now to in a couple of months back to where we were back in you know February March now I just I just can't see that happening so I think we've got a very long tail to this which will take you know the r...”
“I think the one that one of those fortunate things for us that we're quite asset heavy so we have the security the assets to lend against which has helped enormously.”
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