Wine & Branding Consulting
Girl Meets Grape (GMG) is a wine and lifestyle consultancy headed by Bonnie Graves.
GMG clients include Google, Yahoo!, Myspace, JP Morgan, Smith Barney, Office of Champagne USA, Fedejerez (Sherry), Tourism Australia, Insider’s Slovenia and hotels ANdAZ/Hyatt, Viceroy/Kor Hotel Group, Loews, and The Parker/Le Meridien.
Potential clients may reach GMG at info@girlmeetsgrape.com.
Bonnie Graves Overview
Bonnie Graves is building a multi-platform brand around wine, travel and lifestyle. Similar to food/lifestyle personalities like Martha Stewart, Wolfgang Puck and Rachael Ray, Graves aims to share her unique wine expertise via both traditional media outlets and digital channels in a way that is informative, inclusive and fun.
Her goal is to demystify wine for the average consumer while simultaneously celebrating its unique role as a cross-cultural passport. Bonnie has extensive “insider” industry experience as a sommelier at legendary restaurants such as Jean-Georges, Union Square Café and Spago Beverly Hills, and has a wealth of contacts in the international wine and restaurant communities.
As a Harvard graduate fluent in several languages and a former actress/model, Bonnie possesses a rare combination of practical smarts and on-camera comfort. Recent television appearances include a FINE LIVING show in Santa Barbara’s wine country, KTLA’s “The Morning Show” and a feature episode on Champagne for WEALTH TV. Graves has also been featured in USA Today, Forbes, MSNBC, the Los Angeles Times, Food and Wine, Bon Appétit, Daily Variety, Patterson’s Beverage Journal and California Wine and Food. Read more >>
Forbes: A Drink with Bonnie Graves
From Forbes: Bonnie Graves has been a sommelier at restaurants such as Jean-Georges, Union Square Café and Spago Beverly Hills. She is the author of the wine blog Girl Meets Grape.
What is your favorite alcoholic drink?
Champagne. It’s the little black dress of drinks–always chic and always appropriate. But do match the bubbles to the occasion. Use an inexpensive prosecco from Italy for those Sunday mimosas, but toast life’s milestones with the good stuff, real champagne from Champagne. I love Champagne Krug, as do most sommeliers, and [my husband and I] drank it at our wedding and at our daughter’s birth. Mmmmm, Krug Rosé. More please.
What is your favorite watering hole?
Any Four Seasons. When my best friend and I were very poor in our early twenties in Manhattan, we’d get dressed up and go to 57 on 57th Street, order one shaker’s worth of a cocktail with two glasses and make a meal of those very tasty Four Seasons bar snacks. Nowadays, my husband and I have a tradition of going to the nearest Four Seasons on New Year’s Day, no matter where in the world we may be. We love to order champagne and write down all the crazy resolutions we won’t keep for the upcoming year but don’t care about as long as we’re together.
