For Women’s Month Two Women Disrupting the Spirits Industry

Photo Credit: Chandon

For most of its history, the global wine and spirits industry has been shaped behind closed cellar doors and bar counters by men. From vineyard leadership to distillery floors to the cocktail programs defining nightlife culture, women were often present — but rarely positioned at the center of decision-making. They poured, they served, they smiled. They were there for the atmosphere and absent from the architecture. That landscape, however, has been steadily shifting…