Robin McBride

Co-Founder and President, McBride Sisters Wine Company · 2 appearances on the record.

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Alongside her sister Andréa McBride John, Robin McBride co-founded McBride Sisters Wine Company, the largest Black-owned wine business in the United States. She also serves as board chair of the McBride Sisters SHE CAN Professional Development Fund, supporting women across wine, hospitality, and finance.

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2 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Robin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

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 …”

Robin McBride Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 24:37 McBride Sisters Wine (Part 1 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John

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Everything Robin McBride said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure

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…”

Robin McBride Oct 26, 2020 ▶ 1:02:58 McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John

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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 Oct 26, 2020 ▶ 1:07:23 McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John

Assertion Supported

Robin McBride discovered her sister Andréa via a 1999 family letter

Robin McBride Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 24:37 McBride Sisters Wine (Part 1 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John

The other half of the tape: Robin McBride's own voice is left out of every number here. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Robin McBride, by other people (3)

Opinion

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.”

Andréa McBride John Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 45:23 McBride Sisters Wine (Part 1 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John

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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”

Andréa McBride John Oct 26, 2020 ▶ 4:57 McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John

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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”

Andréa McBride John Oct 26, 2020 ▶ 6:11 McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John

Appearances (2)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John	Oct 26, 2020	15m
McBride Sisters Wine (Part 1 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John	Oct 19, 2020	16m

Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Robin McBride was played rather than Robin taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

Episode	Date	On tape	What it is
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Katie Mitchell & Celena Gill	May 13, 2021	39s	clip played

Robin McBride

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