About us
The London Women and Wine Club is centred around wine and women. The aim is to learn about wine in a relaxed and pleasant environment, while providing networking opportunities to professional and accomplished women.
It is a virtual club, meeting once a month in different places around London, always private and beautiful locations, with each time some different food and wine choices around a theme. Each event includes a woman speaker around a different subject.
Both Laurence and Anne are qualified with the Diploma of WSET and they are passionate about wine, helping you discover new wines and network while listening to a really interesting woman speaker. The events are interactive and have ample time for questions and networking.
Members will also benefit from a record of what they liked as well as wine tips, discounts on events and other benefits.
Geeta & Women helping Women
St Jacques Restaurant
Geeta Sidhu-Robb is a 5-time winner of the Entrepreneur and Businesswoman of the Year award. Having developed the hugely successful Nosh Detox in 2008 after her son was born with severe food allergies, eczema, asthma and anaphylaxis, she has built a formidable reputation for success in the heath and nutrition industry counting Gwyneth Paltrow as one of her first clients. She retrained from lawyer to a health & wellness coach for successful professional women in 2014. Over the years she’s built up a roster of world famous clients working with the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, Nadia Swarovski, Gurinder Chadha (Bend it like Beckham) Sam Smith of finnCap (working with her from £3M to an IPO and a £55m exit) and numerous other successful women CEOs, Charity Heads, Country Heads and Celebrities. Her coaching clients describe working with her as ‘transformational & life changing’ and credit her coaching with helping them get promotions, double revenue, manage successful IPO’s and launching massive company growth. And with helping them create successfully happy personal lives alongside.
Also, Geeta has always been an activist and helped run then Chair Open Britain (the largest political lobbying campaign in the UK) against Brexit organising protest marches for up to a million people at a time. She recently launched The Womanist Movement. The B2B element is WCorp at the UN CSW, a movement to certify companies that create safe and supportive workplaces for women to succeed in. This global movement is here to create change at ground level and help make the workplace a level playing field. The B2C element is WComm – a woman only space for women, globally, to be seen and heard. Entry is $1/month and it encompasses wealth creation to a forum for rating companies on their women friendly policies.
She Chairs and sits on three charity Boards including the Montessori Global committed to bringing education to refugee children around the world Microloan Foundation helping the poorest women in the world escape poverty by lending them money to build a business and training them on how to run it.
Her motto “Anything is possible. If you can see it, you can do it; if you can dream it, you can make it happen.’
Geeta is coming back to our club with new ideas, energy, and challenges. Join us in a discussion to explore how women can help other women.
We will taste 5 unusual wines.
New formats with ex banker Vidya
Bancone
Vidya Narasimhan is an independent wine consultant who has recently transitioned to the wine industry. After years in Management Consulting and Banking across 3 continents, Vidya now advises Private Equity Firms on investments in Food and Wine, besides doing a range of other wine-related activities such as hosting wine tastings for corporates and private groups, judging wine competitions, providing wine recommendations for supper clubs and restaurants. She lends her voice to diversity, inclusion and sustainability initiatives in the wine industry.
She has completed her Diploma in Wine from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET). She has completed the trio of Wine Scholar programmes from the Wine Scholar Guild (WSG): French Wine Scholar (Highest Honours), Spanish Wine Scholar (Highest Honours) and Italian Wine Scholar (Honours). She is currently enrolled for the Bordeaux Masters Programme at the WSG.
Vidya is a wine judge, judging for London Wine Competition (LWC – 2025), Glass of Bubbly Awards (2023), Decanter Retailer Awards (2022) and People’s Choice Drinks Awards (2022 and 2023). She is an Advisory Board Member for Be Inclusive Hospitality (BIH) and an Ambassador for the Sustainable Wine Roundtable (SWR). She has an MBA from the Ross School of Business, Michigan (2006).
Vidya’s passion for food and wine appreciation stems from love for travel when she would seek to eat and drink local in her global travels to understand culture and cuisine. Vidya is keen to make wine appreciation and learning an adventure - fun, approachable and accessible.
This will be a fun event, where we will talk about different formats in the market and whether "bag in the box" or "canned wine" are still as horrible as they once were. We will taste and compare the new formats to bottled wine and will discuss how these formats may help the wine industry stem a decline in new, young drinkers by appearing more fun and enjoyable. Vidya can also speak about how she made the change from management consultant and banking to the wine industry.
We will be having a private room at Bancone in Borough Yrads, a hip area with lots of fun bars and restaurants, tasting Italian food with a range of different wines (bottles as well as some bag in the box).
BE AWARE: it will start at 8.30 pm until 23.30 pm
(We apologise in advance, our system is not set up to start at 6.30, so the confirmation will be 6.30 but the actual event starts at 8.30 pm. You will receive your calendar invitation in due time with the right timing..Thank you for your kind understanding)
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