An Insider’s Perspective to Wine business

Ever considered packing up your career and doing something for fun?!  Why not work with wine?  Everyone loves a nice glass of wine!  Working in wine must be great!  Visiting beautiful vineyards, dining in fine restaurants, having fabulous drinking experiences – what is not to love?!  Working in wine is all of these things.  It is also a business.  A business in a highly competitive and highly regulated industry subject to the winds of change of taste and trend.  Michelle Forczek has been involved in the business of wine since 1999 and will share her perspective on what it is like to consume and be consumed by wine on a daily basis.

Michelle is a Director of Top Selection Ltd and 9 Elms Wines.  Top Selection was founded in London in 2000 as a specialist importer of fine wines and spirits.  The company has scrabbled its way to Fine Wine Merchant of the UK for 3 years in a row (2018 – 2020), as chosen by true industry experts – sommeliers.  It built a reputation for sourcing innovative and exclusive products from passionate producers around the world and supplying them to some of the finest restaurants, hotels, retailers and private clients in the UK.  Michelle will share her perspective on the joys and challenges of working in the wine business and how it compares to her previous career on Wall Street, the City and management consulting. 

We will be tasting wines chosen by her that reflect her taste and history in the business: (sample size)

Kanta Riesling 2015

Nathan Kendall Chardonnay 2018

David Duband Bourgogne 2017

Capanelle Chianti Classico  Riserva 2015

Clos Le Comte Sauternes Cuvée Emilie 2017

Price: 60£ with wines registration on the website (No EU delivery)

Deadline to order wines: Tuesday 20th of April midnight

To join without wines: 10£ to transfer to our account

Account

The London Women and Wine Club

Natwest

Sort Code: 502101

Account: 31022634

Reference: Michelle