Wine of Queens and Queen of Wines — How diversity will conquer Champagne

Lucy R Edwards
5 min readNov 18, 2020

There are not enough women in the wine industry. That is FACT.

In 2020 only 27% of wineries in France are run by women. This certainly has increased since my birth year (the horrible vintage of 1987) when there were less than 14%, but it highlights the fact that it’s an industry that with not achieve parity any time soon.

As a woman working in the champagne business for the last 10 years, I have seen my fair share of sexism. Men offering to buy my wine in exchange for sexual…

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Lucy R Edwards

Sex, champagne and rock’n’roll. Wine nerd, feminist and founder of champagneeveryday.com.au