Robin McBride
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The sisters visited the plantation where their great-grandparents were enslaved
“Andre and I actually have a photo. We're able to go and visit the plantation house where our great grandparents were enslaved, and where our father was born in the back, in the small house in the back.”
Robin McBride says the McBride Sisters brand is not for sale
“Our personal name is not for sale, so that's a little tricky, but also the brands that we create you know, each of those Brands has a very powerful message behind them, and like Andrea said, that don't belong to us necessarily. We see ourselves as the stewards…”
McBride Sisters launched their import business with an order of 54 cases
“It was, ah, a pallet, which is, like, 54 cases, which is, like, the minimum of what you can, like, put on a boat, you know but for us, that was just, An insane, and in a case of wine, there's 12 bottles”
McBride Sisters used $1,500 life savings to buy a federal wine license
“A federal importer's license that was like 1500 dollars. It was like our total life savings, and we could import other people's wines”
McBride Sisters uniquely produces its wine across two different global hemispheres
“And I feel like, you know, really quickly, at the time, we felt like we could do something that no other winery in the world could do. And that was that we could authentically make wine in two different hemispheres.”
Robin McBride discovered her sister Andréa via a 1999 family letter
“At this point, he had passed away in 1996, the letter I got in January of 1999, and said that your father's passed away, and We went desperately to find you. You have a little sister. Her name is Andrea, and you know, at the time she was 16 years old, and she …”