Wisdom From The Women Leading the Wine & Spirits Industries, with Jessica Carroll Of Big White House Winery & John Evan Cellars

An interview with Kelly Reeves

Pushing for sales is a tough one and there are plenty of sales tactics out there. This is one I have not mastered, and it definitely doesn’t come naturally. I’ll have conversations about wine endlessly, and I can get rather nerdy about the topic, so I tend to do the sales pull rather than push.

Less than 20% of winemakers and distillers are women. Traditionally, women were excluded from these industries. This number is slowly rising as more women choose to study this profession and enter the wine and spirits fields. What is it like for those women who work in this male dominated industry? What are some of the challenges that these women face? Is there hope for better representation, and better wages, for women in the wine and spirits industry? As a part of our series about women leading the wine and spirits industries, we had the pleasure of interviewing Jessica Carroll.