A Conversation Between Women In Wine with Emily Gold and Liz Willette Danneels A Co-Interview with The Fine Line & The Alexi Cashen Podcast
Liz Willette Danneels first developed a love of wine while working for the luxury travel company Butterfield & Robinson. After a year in Burgundy and five years in Italy, she taught herself about wine mainly by buying the best bottles she could afford, studying them, and (of course) drinking them.
She ran a wine bar in a Relais & Châteaux Hotel in the Dolomites in Northern Italy, worked for David Bouley, and then for importer/distributor Michael Skurnik as a sales representative in Manhattan. Today, she is a partner at Natural Wine Company.
Emily Gold grew up cooking and drinking wine with her parents and four older siblings, always relishing the time together as well as the education. In 2012, Emily eagerly accepted a job with Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant in their office located in Beaune, France. There, she met winemakers, learned about regions around France and Italy, and became versed on the ins and outs of importing some of the most respected icons in the industry.
In 2014, Emily returned to Boulder, Colorado to open a restaurant and wine bar called PMG or Pour Ma Gueule, a term used by French winemakers to reference the wine bottles they stash away for drinking with their family and friends. PMG offered organic and locally-sourced food, dishes inspired by France and Italy, and organic and biodynamic wines. After six years of being a solo, small business owner, Emily sold her business in 2020.
Liz and Emily are the hosts of The Fine Line Podcast: Balancing Hedonism & Health where they interview people that they admire inside and outside the wine business to learn how they balance their love of food, wine, and travel with their health and wellness, both physical and mental.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Emily Gold, Liz Willette Danneels, and Alexi Cashen share how they got into the wine industry
Why working in the restaurant service industry is a character and skill-building experience
Emily and Liz talk about the inspiration behind their podcast, The Fine Line Podcast
How to strike the right balance between work and family as a woman in the wine business
Alexi shares why she decided to start a podcast
What Emily and Liz have gotten out of podcasting
Alexi talks about her forthcoming new product
Why it’s important to embrace technology, innovation, and diversity in the wine industry
What a young woman coming out of college and wants to start an entrepreneurial path in the wine business should know
In this episode…
Women are incredible. They are often under an insurmountable amount of pressure and hurdles and yet, they always manage to push through and come out on top. But for women in cut-throat and male-dominated industries, these challenges become even bigger. The question is, how do they do it?
Liz Willette Danneels, Emily Gold, and Alexi Cashen are all women in wine. They have carved their names in the male-dominated industry and they know what it’s like to face the challenges that come with being a woman in their chosen field. More importantly they know and understand the struggle of finding the balance between work, family health, and fun.
In this co-interview between Alexi Cashen of The Alexi Cashen Podcast and Emily Gold and Liz Willette Danneels of The Fine Line Podcast, three remarkable women in the wine industry talk about the illusion of having it all and making the most out of every experience. Tune in as they discuss their journey into the wine industry, what it is like to be a woman in wine, how to find the right balance in work and in life, why they decided to start their own podcasts, and more.
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