Arora is a noted wine writer, author, journalist, international judge, speaker, consultant, educator and a wine club promoter. He is the Editor and major content provider of the eNewsletter delWine. Arora founded the Delhi Wine Club in 2002 where he pairs food with wine and has organized a large number of wine dinners.
Kailash Gurnani is the chief winemaker & director of India's only family owned & operated winery, York. He graduated from the Oenology School at the University of Adelaide, Australia and is also the youngest winemaker in India
Ashok Chokalingam joined Amrut Distilleries in February 2004 as territory manager – sales and marketing, responsible for marketing and logistics for the EU market. He assumed responsibility for international sales and marketing in Feb 2007. Ashok has received accolades such as ‘Icons of Whisky’, Whisky Ambassador of the Year in 2012 and 2016 by Whisky [...]
Ms Ben Simon is the Export Director of the renowned Israeli Carmel/Yatir wineries. Her career began at the Golan Heights Winery as a Product Specialist, responsible for overall program development. She continued as Regional Sales Manager for the US based Royal Wine Corp. in Northern California. Royal is a manufacturer, importer and distributor of premium [...]
Michelle is head of country research at leading global strategic market research provider Euromonitor and her key responsibilities include ensuring the timely output of high calibre data and analysis for mainland China. She is frequently invited to industry conferences and seminars to share her in-depth insight.
Vice-general-secretary of the China Wine Association and vice-general-secretary of the Chinese viticulture society. Associate professor of wine tasting and oenology at the Beijing Agricultural College and a guest lecturer at ESA Angers, France. He trained at Chateau Palmer, and has visited almost every wine region in the world. Demei was the first chief winemaker and [...]
Yutong is the deputy dean of the China Food Fermentation Industry Research Institute. He is also director of the Georgian Wine Agency (China).
Founder, editor in chief and tastings director of the WINE & Degustation magazine. Founder and editor in chief of the annual Guide to the best wines of the Czech Republic. President of the Wine Prague international wine fair. In a professional wine bussines since 1998 as a freelance wine writer and photographer for many Czech [...]
In 2004, Taner established his own company, Fidelity Consulting, aimed at establishing ‘Wines of Turkey’ by bringing Turkish wineries together to promote their wines abroad and develop a wine culture in Turkey. In 2014, with membership of WOT standing at 30 wineries (90% of wine business in Turkey), Taner completed his mission by securing WOT [...]
Golden Grape ArmAs CEO, Victoria Armen Aslanian was born in Yerevan in 1982, immigrating to the U.S. in 1990. She studied Art History in Florence, Italy, and continued her education at UC Berkeley where she received her BA degree. In 2009, she repatriated to Armenia to partake in her father's vision and venture which involved [...]