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Robin serves as the Board Chair and President of McBride Sisters Wine Company, a multinational organization headquartered in Oakland, California. It is in the top 1% of volume, largest Black-owned and largest women founded wine company in the United States, as well as one of the most inclusive, accessible, and socially aware. Robin and her sister began importing wines from New Zealand in 2005 and started making their own wine together in 2009.
By spring 2017, the pair were producing wine from their hometowns in Monterey California and Aotearoa New Zealand under one label, McBride Sisters Collection. In 2018, they launched Black Girl Magic Wines, a celebratory wine brand paying homage to women in their family and community, and in 2019 the sisters debuted SHE CAN Wines, a premium canned wine in 2019 on International Women’s Day.
Robin serves as a Board Chair for the McBride Sisters SHE CAN Professional Development Fund which she founded in 2019 with her sister Andréa. Since its inception the fund has awarded over $3M in scholarships, grants and technical training to 3,000 professional women in wine & spirits, hospitality and finance. In 2021 the fund partnered with Southern University of Louisiana as their flagship HBCU, to create a career pipeline for diverse students into the wine industry.
Robin and Andréa were the first Black women winery owners on the cover of Wine Enthusiast magazine and were nominated for the Wine Star Award for the US Winery of the Year in 202. Robin resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and has three children Daneia, Domenic and Angelo who all have pursuits in the wine & food industries.
Andréa serves as CEO of McBride Sisters Wine Company, a multinational organization headquartered in Oakland, California. It is in the top 1% of volume, largest Black-owned and largest women founded wine company in the United States, as well as one of the most inclusive, accessible, and socially aware. With her sister Robin, Andréa began importing wines from New Zealand in 2005 and began making their own wine together in 2009. By spring 2017, the pair were producing wine from their hometowns in Aotearoa New Zealand and California under one label, McBride Sisters Collection.
In 2018, they launched Black Girl Magic Wines, a celebratory wine brand paying homage to women in their family and community, and debuted SHE CAN Wines, a premium canned wine in 2019 on International Women’s Day.
Andréa serves as a Board Member for McBride Sisters SHE CAN Professional Development Fund which she founded in 2019 with her sister Robin. Since its inception the fund has awarded over $3M in scholarships, grants and technical training to 3,000 professional women in wine & spirits, hospitality and finance. In 2021 the fund partnered with Southern University of Louisiana as their flagship HBCU, to create a career pipeline for diverse students into the wine industry.
Andréa and Robin were the first Black women Winery owners on the cover of Wine Enthusiast magazine, she has been recognized as one of Wine Enthusiast’s 40 Under 40 and has been nominated for the Wine Star Award US Winery of the Year 2021.
Andréa holds her B.A. in International Relations with a concentration in Global Business from the University of Southern California 2007. She is a member of the 2022 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute and she resides in San Francisco with her husband Fabian and daughter Meursault.
By 2018, the McBride Sisters had grown their brand to the point where they needed a dedicated winemaker based on the Central Coast and met Amy Butler through a trusted advisor and fellow Central Coast viticulturist. After starting her career in Napa, Amy had racked up a 16-year history of contract and consulting winemaking in and around Paso Robles and was instantly a perfect match for the McBride Sisters’ philosophy and company culture. Amy's UC Davis enology degree, her broad experience building and growing boutique wine brands, and her "liquid resumé" made her a strong candidate for the job. After two and a half years as a consultant, the Sisters finally convinced Amy to join the company full-time. While spearheading the winemaking efforts of a growth leader in all wine categories, Amy brings her small-production focus on quality and authenticity to all the wines in the McBride Sisters Wine Company portfolio.
Founded by real-life sisters Robin McBride and Andréa
McBride John, McBride Sisters Wine Company is the largest
Black-owned and largest all women-founded wine company in
the United States. Our mission is to transform the
industry, lead by example and cultivate community, one
delicious glass at a time.
We serve the “New
Majority”, that have been ignored by the U.S. wine
industry for many years, who are thirsty and want to be
welcomed into the world of wine. Our mission is to break
down barriers and make the future of wine more
accessible.
We produce wine across two
hemispheres, from premier coastal winemaking regions which
are at the root of our story - where Andréa and Robin each
grew up - in Aotearoa (pronounced “ah-oh teh-ah ROH-ah”)
New Zealand and the Central Coast of California, in the
United States. We offer a unique portfolio of leading
brands; McBride Sisters Collection, Black Girl Magic
Wines, and SHE CAN Wines and spritzers.
McBride
Sisters Wine Company produces, imports and markets its own
wines. It specializes in the Fortune 500 grocery stores
and mass retailers, as well as wine and spirits chains,
hotels, restaurants, independent wine shops, sports arenas
and airlines across almost all 50 states of the U.S,
Caribbean and Canada.
In March of 2023, McBride
Sisters Wine Company became Certified Carbon Neutral and
offset our 2022 carbon emissions by purchasing carbon
credits from projects around the world that are focused on
environmental, social equity and economic equity for
historically marginalized communities.
We are
Wine for the New World.
This is a full-time remote role for a Director of National Accounts on/off premise. The Director of National Accounts will be responsible for overseeing account management and sales for national accounts. The role involves business planning, creating, and maintaining relationships with customers, and strategically managing portfolio volume and brand growth within a defined account base.
Qualifications:
The Senior Accountant is responsible for day-to-day Financial support for 3T Sales, Direct to Consumer, and Winery Operations. The role provides accounting support in inventory, COGS reporting and analysis, account reconciliations and monthly/annual close activities.
The job description reflects management's assignments of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities
Education and Experience
Physical Requirements
This job description is subject to change and other functions may be assigned at the Company’s discretion. I reviewed and discussed this job description and understand that it does not represent an employment contract.
WHERE WILL WINE TAKE YOU
With no winemaking legacy to stand on, Robin McBride &
Andréa McBride John set out guided by one
set of
principles – to make our own wine traditions, and place
women, culture, cuisine, taste and
lifestyle at the
center of a wine experience.
Selecting oceanic grapes from Aotearoa (pronounced
“ah-oh
teh-ah ROH-ah”) New Zealand and the Central Coast of
California, where each Sister grew up, McBride Sisters
Collection offers a delicious range of wines with maximum
freshness, flavor and
elegance, to enhance any food,
mood and occasion.
WINE LIKE YOU
With Black Girl Magic Wines, we pay homage to our heritage
and we honor all Black women in our
community, across
the Diaspora and the world, who have graced culture and
society with her soul,
spirit and MAGIC for
generations. We are inspired by the original “Noble
grapes”, that have been
perfected over centuries to
make the most majestic, rich and luscious varietals.
These award-winning wines are sourced from elite
California vineyards, using the finest grapes,
designed
to serve magnificent Black Women and all of her
celebratory moods and occasions
Break the rules. Drink the Wine.
We are a women-first, women-owned and women led company.
We show up and advocate for all
women. We walk the
walk, talk the talk, break the rules, make the wine and
then DRINK IT!
Delivering lip-smackingly delicious, lower calorie, affordable, premium quality wines and spritzers in a can, SHE CANs are nimble and ready to show up to your journey. Versatility and experimentation are our priority. One 250mL can of SHE CAN Wines is just over one and a half 5oz glasses of wine, so there is no pressure to commit to overindulging in (or wasting!) an entire bottle to enjoy the experience. We are change agents who advocate for fun, experimentation, inclusivity, and empowerment to revolutionize the wine industry and beyond. We see you, and invite you to show up and discover a like-minded community with SHE CAN.
EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
The McBride Sisters story is one like no other. One could say that their path to sisterhood and ultimately changing the face of the wine industry was destiny at work. Sisters Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John were raised across the globe from one another in two of the world's most iconic wine growing, agriculture and farming regions — Monterey, California and Aotearoa New Zealand. Each thought they were only children until fate united them in 1999 and their discovery of one another, along with a shared love affair with wine, food and culture, sparked a creative and entrepreneurial force.
A PLACE OF OUR OWN
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2023, we received the keys to M Ranch: a proud new milestone and chapter in our wine journey. By acquiring this historic vineyard property in Napa Valley’s breezy and beautiful Carneros District, we finally have a place to call our own. What we build here will surely make history in Napa Valley, where wineries owned by Black women are hard to come by.
Our 12-acre property has been a family ranch for more than 100 years – with a name that immediately felt like home. We celebrated our first M Ranch harvest in 2023, and will be working to restore and enhance the landscape as the new stewards of this magical place. We have big plans for M Ranch, and we look forward to welcoming the public to our Napa Valley home in 2024.
Stay tuned for updates!
For me, the Holidays are about sharing the table and the kitchen. I spend all year looking at cookbooks and planning the feast. We [me and my family] enjoy our traditional favorites of course, with seasonal flavors like pumpkin, sage, and cranberry, but we can't help changing up the recipes from year to year. The versatility of our McBride Sisters Collection Red Blend finds a home with all of these dishes, fruity enough to pair with roast turkey or pork, and bright enough to emphasize the richness of buttery potatoes and herby stuffing. In my family, we've learned that what's in the glass during the preparation of the food is almost as important as what's in the glass on the table! The festive mood in the bustling kitchen lends itself to a glass (or two) of the McBride Sisters Collection Sparkling Brut Rosé, our nod to the sunny southern hemisphere as we welcome California's cozy winter.
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