Robin Kick MW is a choose on the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
Robin Kick MW
Initially from the Chicago space, Robin Kick MW at present lives in Lugano, Switzerland the place she works as a contract shopping for/export guide, wine choose, educator and journalist.
After acquiring two Masters of Arts levels in French and linguistics, she started instructing on the Université de Good however modified profession paths in 1998 after finishing knowledgeable course (“Sommelier Conseil”) on the esteemed Université du Vin de Suze-la-Rousse in France’s Rhône Valley.
She launched her wine profession in 1999 as a high-quality wine specialist at Christie’s public sale home in Beverly Hills, California, the place she procured, negotiated, estimated and authenticated wine collections in addition to educated on wine assortment methods. Throughout this time, she continued her wine research by way of the WSET, native wine programs and by extensively tasting by way of non-public cellars.
A transfer to London in 2003 led to roles as advertising supervisor for Tremendous and Uncommon Wine Ltd., one of many nation’s prime wine brokers, in addition to wine purchaser for Goedhuis & Co., an award-winning high-quality wine service provider, famend for its Burgundy and Bordeaux checklist.
Whereas in London, she studied on the Institute of Masters of Wine, graduating in 2014 following the profitable completion of her dissertation, “An Investigation of Complete Cluster Fermentation in Pinot Noir within the Côte d’Or”, which featured ground-breaking, authentic analysis and remains to be a degree of reference throughout the wine world.
Over time, she was inducted as a Chevalier of the Confrérie des Chevaliers de Tastevin on the Château du Clos de Vougeot and a Dame Chevalier for the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne.
As we speak, she repeatedly consults for wine importers on their portfolios, contributes wine articles to Decanter Journal and the ‘Corriere del Ticino’, Ticino’s largest newspaper; collaborates with The Wine Scholar Guild for his or her Bourgogne Grasp-Stage Program whereas guiding excursions to the area for his or her college students; teaches WSET programs on the Château de Pommard in addition to carries out bespoke tastings for each wineries and collectors.
When she just isn’t in Switzerland, she spends a lot of her time within the Côte d’Or or travelling and tasting by way of lots of Italy’s wine areas.
Robin Kick MW was first a choose on the DWWA in 2015.
