McBride Sisters Wine (Part 1 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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When we first spoke with Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John, we were so blown away by their story that we decided to turn it into two episodes. With hardly any money or connections, they built one of the biggest Black-owned wine companies in the world — a journey that began with an extraordinary family discovery: Robin and Andréa are half-sisters who didn't know of each other's existence until they were both young women. Robin grew up in California, and at the age of 25, she received a letter with life-changing news: she had a younger sister living in New Zealand. The sisters met for the first time in 1999, formed an instant bond, and soon realized they shared a deep interest in the art of winemaking. They began dreaming about building their own company—one that would open up the wine industry to people who often feel shut out of it.

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1:16.0	Sometimes we would just drive with no like destination on mind, and we would just be talking, and we would kind of what we call now, just drive and dream.
1:30.0	And we would just talk about like, hey, yo, what would it be like if we started our own wine company?
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1:39.0	How could we possibly do that?
1:41.0	We don't know how to make wine, we have no money, that's crazy, but how crazy is it though?
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2:08.0	I'm Guy Raaz, and on the show today, how two sisters who grew up on opposite sides of the world discovered each other, met for the first time, and then launched an idea that would grow into one of the biggest black owned wine companies in the world.
2:24.0	McBride Sisters.
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