We are excited to announce that Lewis Perdue, Publisher and Executive Editor of Wine Industry Insight, will be this year’s Keynote Speaker at the Wine Bloggers Conference in Walla Walla, WA in October.
Wine Industry Insight’s daily News Fetch email briefing enjoys the one of the largest daily subscribership (25,000+) in the North American wine industry. He founded Wine Business Monthly in 1991 and Wines West, a Los Angeles-based wine importer/wholesaler/distributor specializing in high-end Italian brands.
Lew has served as a top aide to a U.S. Senator and a state governor, run Congressional races, worked as a Washington correspondent (Ottaway/Dow-Jones, States News Service), a columnist for Gannett, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch and TheStreet.Com. He has served on the faculties at UCLA and Cornell University, authored 22 published books including The French Paradox and Beyond, the Wrath of Grapes and several bestselling thrillers (LewisPerdue.Com).
We look forward to welcoming Lew to Walla Walla!