(Article printed in Women' s Calendar -
December 2005)
Women in Wine
Women as winery owners were virtually
nonexistent 30 years ago in the United
States when a few pioneers cropped up and seeded a healthy interest in the
business.
Now, women in the winery industry own top brands.
Elizabeth Weeks has made a study of women in wine and presented a
comprehensive list of women-owned wine operations:
Credits: Elizabeth Weeks is a Vice
President and Senior Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch in San Francisco who
focuses on women executives in the wine industry. The purpose of this wine
list is to expand opportunities for women owned wineries through business to
business relationships. In other words, other women owned businesses using
the services of women-owned wineries for corporate events, gifting and
personal consumption. In addition, this list is a tool to introduce majority
women owned wineries (51%) to the Fortune 500 through supplier diversity
procurement. . There are five states represented on this edition.
