Globally minded and constantly curious: David Forer is an England-born and Canada-raised Master of Wine and a co-owner of a vineyard in Priorat, Spain. He combines his wine career with developing corporate strategies for brands and acting as a private investor in wineries and startup wine tech companies.

A true icon of the wine industry, Rajat Parr is one of the world’s foremost experts on wine. He rose to international stardom after his tenure at San Francisco's institutions like Rubicon and Fifth Floor, but more recently, his prestige as an industry-shifting wine director has been eclipsed by his renown as a wine writer and winemaker. He is partner/proprietor in Sandhi and Domaine de la Côte in Santa Barbara, Evening Land in the Willamette and a force of nature behind the regenerative farming project Phelan Farm in Cambria.

Napa's iconoclastic winemaker Dan Petroski (@danpetroski) is the founder and owner of the revered @massicanwinery and a thought-leader in the intersection of wine & NFTs. A disruptor by nature, he started the project with no formal winemaking background and learned with his boots on the ground.