International Canned Wine Competition

Allan has been in the wine business for more than 45 years. His experience includes directing and organizing the Mendocino County Fair Wine Competition, which he helped start in 1979, for most of the last thirty years. He also created and hosted the California Wine Tasting Championships from 1983 through 2012. During his more than 35 years as a winemaker and grape grower he became interested in canned wine, and since 1980 has assembled a collection of more than 1,100 different wine cans.

Lisa brings fifteen years of experience in results-oriented marketing, communication,  promotion and sales leadership and managing business operations. She has an outstanding track record specializing in planning, managing and executing interdisciplinary projects of many types.

Robert Williams Jr., PhD, has taught marketing and business courses for nearly twenty years, most recently at Susquehanna University.   He is also the founder of WICResearch, a leader in the wine-in-can market, and has conducted numerous studies with hundreds of news outlets quoting his work.  Robert most recently presented at B.E.V. NY, and contributed to a session at ProWein in Germany.  WIC Research's latest free report on the wine-in-can market is available at www.WICresearch.com